The Anatomy Theatre

A Gift Edit

For the New Doctor

Medical-school graduation, the match, the first white coat.

The plates that began it all — the founding images of the science they have just joined. A graduation or a match is the moment a person stops studying medicine and starts practising it; these are the works that mark the lineage they are entering.

The plates

  • The Muscle Man — from De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Andreas Vesalius, 1543

    Andreas Vesalius · 1543

    The Muscle Man

    The image that founded modern anatomy.

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica · 1543
  • The Contemplating Skeleton — from De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Andreas Vesalius, 1543

    Andreas Vesalius · 1543

    The Contemplating Skeleton

    A skeleton, lost in thought before a tomb.

    Vivitur ingenio, caetera mortis erunt
  • The Ideal Figure — from Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, engr. Jan Wandelaar, 1747

    Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, engr. Jan Wandelaar · 1747

    The Ideal Figure

    Human anatomy as classical sculpture.

    Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum · 1747
  • A Bourgery Plate — from Traité Complet de l’Anatomie de l’Homme, J.-B. M. Bourgery & N. H. Jacob, 1831–1854

    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
  • The Gravid Uterus — from The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, William Hunter, drawn by Jan van Rymsdyk, 1774

    William Hunter, drawn by Jan van Rymsdyk · 1774

    The Gravid Uterus

    A monumental, unflinching study of new life.

    Anatomia Uteri Humani Gravidi · 1774

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