The Heart, from Eustachi

Six views of the heart, engraved in 1552.

Work: from Tabulae Anatomicae
Maker: Bartolomeo Eustachi
Date: 1552, published 1722
Held by: Published Amsterdam, 1552, published 1722 · Wellcome Collection

Tabulae Anatomicae

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

Bartolomeo Eustachi had his anatomical plates engraved in Rome in 1552 and then they disappeared, unpublished, for more than a century and a half. When they were finally printed, in 1714 and again in the Amsterdam edition of 1722 from which this sheet comes, they proved more accurate than much that had been made since. Six views of the heart are arranged down the page, opened and closed, numbered I to VI in Roman figures. The Wellcome Collection holds the image, photographed in 1955 from the Wetstein edition.

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The plate, in the room it was made for

The Heart, from Eustachi, 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 Heart, from Eustachi framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of from Tabulae Anatomicae — Bartolomeo Eustachi, 1552, published 1722 — from the copy held by Published Amsterdam, 1552, published 1722 · 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