The Striding Écorché

Vesalius’s figure, carried into Spanish.

Work: from Historia de la Composición del Cuerpo Humano
Maker: Juan Valverde de Amusco
Date: 1556
Held by: Published Rome, 1556 · Wellcome Collection

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

Juan Valverde de Amusco brought the new anatomy to readers of Spanish in Rome in 1556, and his book carried Vesalius's figures over from woodcut into finely cut copper. Plate II of the second book is one of them: a flayed man in full stride across open ground, one hand raised, his head turned up as if listening. The heading on the plate reads Tab. Segunda del Lib. Segundo. The house already holds Valverde's man with his own skin; this is the plate that follows in the same copy at the Wellcome Collection.

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The plate, in the room it was made for

The Striding Écorché, 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 Historia de la Composición del Cuerpo Humano — Juan Valverde de Amusco, 1556 — from the copy held by Published Rome, 1556 · 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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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