The Gravid Uterus

A monumental, unflinching study of new life.

Work: from The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus
Maker: William Hunter, drawn by Jan van Rymsdyk
Date: 1774
Held by: Published Birmingham, 1774 · Wellcome Collection

Anatomia Uteri Humani Gravidi · 1774

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

William Hunter's atlas of the pregnant human form is one of the most powerful works in all of medicine — Jan van Rymsdyk's drawings rendering the subject with a monumental, almost sculptural gravity, unsparing and reverent at once. Hunter's rule was absolute: draw only what is actually there, in this body, on this table — no idealizing, no composite. That discipline made the atlas a landmark of obstetrics and of art, and it is why the plates still hold. A serious, dignified object for the physician or midwife.

See it on your wall

The plate, in the room it was made for

The Gravid Uterus, 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 The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus — William Hunter, drawn by Jan van Rymsdyk, 1774 — from the copy held by Published Birmingham, 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.
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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