Muscleman, in a landscape, seen from the front. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.

Bern : Dr A. Wander, 1940.

1 print : photolithograph

Prima musculorum tabula The lettering that identifies the woodcut as the first muscle plate is a printing error which is corrected in the list of errata at the end of the book to read: Quarta mus<ulorum> tab<ula>

J. B. de C. M. Saunders and C. D. O'Malley, The illustrations from the works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, Cleveland and New York, 1950, pp. 98-99, pl. 27

D. Rosand and M. Muraro, Titian and the Venetian Woodcut, exhibition catalogue, Washington 1976

H. Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, 2nd ed., Hamden, Conn. and London 1962, pp. 75-88, no. VI. A.-1

Wellcome Collection 24363i

The original: is the fourth plate to the second book of the De humani corporis fabrica libri septem of Andreas Vesalius, published in Basel in 1543