The muscles of the human body, fourth layer, seen from the front. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.

[Nancy] : [J. B. H. Leclerc], [1773]

1 print : mezzotint, printed in colours

A. E. G. D. pin. et scul. cum. pri. R. Bears plate no. : VI

L. Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. by M. Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. 1945, repr. New York 1962, p. 273

Florian Rodari, Anatomie de la couleur. L'invention de l'estampe en couleurs, exh. cat., Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1996, p. 137, no. 125

H. W. Singer, "Der Vierfarbendruck in der Gefolgschaft Jakob Christoffel Le Blons mit Oeuvre-Verzeichnissen der Familie Gautier-Dagoty, J. Roberts, J. Ladmirals und C. Lasinios," Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft, 1917, 10: pp. 301-302

Wellcome Collection 32556i

The figure is based on a plate to B. S. Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, Leiden 1747, drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). It is the reverse of Albinus's fourth order of muscles, seen from the front.