The Brain, Tabula CCXL

Sections of the brain, set like specimens.

Work: from Icones Anatomicae
Maker: Floriano Caldani
Date: 1801–1813
Held by: Published Venice, 1801–1813 · Wellcome Collection

Tabula CCXL

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

Plate 240 of the Icones Anatomicae published in Venice between 1801 and 1813 by Floriano Caldani with his uncle Leopoldo, a gathering of the finest anatomical plates of the age copied from the best modern works. This sheet sets out the brain in several sections, horizontal and vertical, spaced down the page in pale engraved tone. Its title promised the most celebrated figures from the best authors, collected with the greatest diligence, and the plate lives up to it. Photographed by the Wellcome Collection.

See it on your wall

The plate, in the room it was made for

The Brain, Tabula CCXL, 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.

The Brain, Tabula CCXL framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of from Icones Anatomicae — Floriano Caldani, 1801–1813 — from the copy held by Published Venice, 1801–1813 · 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.

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