Traité Complet de l'Anatomie de l'Homme · 1831–1854
The Great Atlases
The golden age of the plate. Bourgery, Mascagni, Eustachi, Hunter — hundreds of lithographs and engravings in which scientific precision and sheer beauty reached their height together.
The plates in The Great Atlases
J.-B. M. Bourgery & N. H. Jacob · 1831–1854
A Bourgery Plate
The most beautiful anatomy of the 19th century.
Traité Complet de l’Anatomie de l’Homme · 1831–1854
Paolo Mascagni · 1823–1831
The Body at Life Size
Anatomy on the grandest scale ever attempted.
Anatomia Universa · 1823–1831
Bartolomeo Eustachi · engraved 1552, published 1714
The Eustachian Plates
Anatomy two centuries ahead of its time.
Tabulae Anatomicae · 1714
William Hunter, drawn by Jan van Rymsdyk · 1774
The Gravid Uterus
A monumental, unflinching study of new life.
Anatomia Uteri Humani Gravidi · 1774