De Formato Foetu, Tabula IIII

Opened like a flower, standing in a garden.

Work: from De Formato Foetu
Maker: Adriaan van de Spiegel, plates after Giulio Casserius
Date: 1631
Held by: Published Frankfurt, 1631 · Wellcome Collection

De Formato Foetu · Tab. IIII

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

Spiegel's book on the formation of the foetus appeared in Frankfurt in 1631, printed by Caspar Rotel for Matthäus Merian, and edited after the author's death by Liberalis Crema. Its plates follow the same graceful convention as the Fabrica of the following year: the woman stands among plants, hair bound up with ribbon, one hand open as if mid-sentence, and the layers of the body opened in leaves around the womb. Tabula IIII faces page 36 in the Wellcome Collection's copy, where a library stamp of the Manchester Medical Society still shows.

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The plate, in the room it was made for

De Formato Foetu, Tabula IIII, 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.

De Formato Foetu, Tabula IIII framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of from De Formato Foetu — Adriaan van de Spiegel, plates after Giulio Casserius, 1631 — from the copy held by Published Frankfurt, 1631 · 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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