What a Child Should Know of the Body

Anatomy, sickness and surgery, for children.

Work: from Elementarwerk
Maker: Daniel Berger after Daniel Chodowiecki, for Johann Bernhard Basedow
Date: 1774
Held by: Published Berlin and Dessau, 1774 · Wellcome Collection

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

An etching by Daniel Berger after Daniel Chodowiecki for Johann Bernhard Basedow's book of lessons for children, 1774. The Wellcome Collection describes it as a summary of what children should know about the human body, medicine and surgery. Across the top run anatomical figures after Casserius, skeleton, heart and viscera; below, a sick man is attended by a doctor and a friend, and a child is given medicine while another is treated by a surgeon. A small Enlightenment encyclopedia on one copper plate.

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The plate, in the room it was made for

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What a Child Should Know of the Body framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of from Elementarwerk — Daniel Berger after Daniel Chodowiecki, for Johann Bernhard Basedow, 1774 — from the copy held by Published Berlin and Dessau, 1774 · 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.
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