The Raised Arm

Albinus’s figure seen from behind, arm aloft.

Work: from Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani
Maker: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
Date: 1747
Held by: Published Leiden, 1747 · Wellcome Collection

Tab. XVIII

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

A standing écorché from the back, right arm raised high, the spine running straight down the centre of the sheet between the deep muscles of the back. The plate is lettered Tab. XVIII in the engraver's hand at its foot. Albinus and his engraver Jan Wandelaar spent years on these tables in Leiden, measuring from the body to keep the figure true while giving it the stance of a statue. Without a background, this plate is all line and posture. Wellcome Collection, under the Public Domain Mark.

See it on your wall

The plate, in the room it was made for

The Raised Arm, printed large and framed — in the consulting room, the study, the library. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

About this reproduction

A reproduction of from Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani — Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, 1747 — from the copy held by Published Leiden, 1747 · Wellcome Collection. The source. The work is centuries out of copyright and in the public domain.
Printed faithful to that source scan. We do not re-colour it, complete it, or interpret it; the plate you receive is the plate as it survives.
Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed editions sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount.
Colour-managed to the source; the tone of the paper and the ink is the engraver’s, not ours.
Ships in 5–10 business days.
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our plates cost more than a poster: a poster is a mass run on wood-pulp stock, colour-corrected to whatever flattered the press that day. This is one sheet, pulled for you, at a size where the engraver’s hand is visible — the linework, the tonal work, the lettering — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.

From the same hand