Pieter Pauw at Leiden

The anatomy theatre, a skeleton holding a banner.

Work: engraving
Maker: Andries Stock after Jacques de Gheyn II
Date: 1615
Held by: Published Leiden, 1615 · Wellcome Collection

Format

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

$29.00

The story

Andries Stock engraved this scene after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II: the anatomist and botanist Pieter Pauw at work in the anatomy theatre at Leiden, a body before him and the tiers of the theatre packed with gentlemen in ruffs and hats. Above the crowd stands a skeleton holding a banner, and dogs wander the floor. Leiden's theatre was one of the first permanent ones in Northern Europe, and the print records it in use. Wellcome Collection, from a photograph of 1947.

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About this reproduction

A reproduction of engraving — Andries Stock after Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615 — from the copy held by Published Leiden, 1615 · 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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