Deeply Articulated Anatomical Engravings

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There is a real fabulousness in design for these images made by anatomist/physiologist Jean-Baptiste Sarlandiere (1787-1838) in his anatomy of 1829 (Anatomie méthodique, ou Organographie humaine en tableaux synoptiques, avec figures. Paris: Chez les libraires de médecine, et chez l'auteur, 1829). Or at least the organize has achieved some high order of merit, both in the lettering/numbering  and display of the anatomical object...and in their placement and arrangement on the sheets of paper.  They're just very pleasing:  the very detailed and complex images are stuffed but concise, and the multiple-image placements are composed of very detail small bits with plenty of free space.  They're just very well-designed. 

[Source:  National Library of Medicine, here.]

 

"Anatomie méthodique, ou Organographie humaine consists of 17 leaves of text and 15 leaves of color lithographed plates depicting human anatomy based upon Sarlandière's dissections. As stated on the title page, his intended audience ranged from physicians and surgeons and their students to students of painting and sculpture. The noted artist Louis Courtin (fl. 1809-1841) created the drawings and some of the lithography, though most of the plates attribute the lithographic work to Delaporte. In some copies, the illustrations are in black and white only. In 1831, the work was published in Latin, under the title, Anatomia methodica, and in 1835 and 1837 it was published in New York in English under the title Systematized anatomy."--from the National Library of Medicine site.

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