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The Phrenic Nerves and the Opened Thorax, Antique Hirschfeld Anatomy Print, 1866
£205 ($270, €240)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1866
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Coloring
- Original hand color
- Condition
- Good. Good condition with light age toning, scattered foxing and minor marks, mainly in the margins. Creasing with a short tear at the lower-left corner and slight edge wear. Please review the images for further condition details.
- Period
- Late 19th century
- Section
- Further natural history
- Reference
- BG-14363-34
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
This antique anatomy print of the phrenic nerves and the opened thorax is an original 1866 hand colored lithograph from Hirschfeld and Leveille's Nevrologie atlas, published in Paris by G. Masson. It is plate 41 in the atlas. The plate shows an anterior view of the opened neck and thorax of a male subject, the ribs cut away to show both lungs drawn aside, the pericardium at the center, the great vessels and the thyroid, and the phrenic nerves branching over the diaphragm.
The plate comes from the atlas to Ludovic Hirschfeld's Nevrologie et Esthesiologie, the second edition of his treatise and iconography of the human nervous system and the organs of sense, published in Paris by G. Masson in 1866. Every figure was drawn from life by J. B. Leveille directly from Hirschfeld's own dissections, printed as a lithograph by Lemercier of the rue de Seine, and colored by hand. Leveille's plates are among the most admired anatomical illustrations of the nineteenth century, exact enough to teach from and drawn with a restraint that keeps them beautiful rather than merely clinical.
For collectors of medical and scientific prints, this antique anatomy print joins precise observation with careful hand color. A single Hirschfeld plate makes a quietly striking picture for a study, library or consulting room, and several plates from the same atlas hang well together as a group.
This plate is in good condition for its age, with light age toning, scattered foxing and minor marks, mainly in the margins. The sheet also shows creasing with a short tear at the lower-left corner and slight edge wear. The toning is consistent with age, and the images show further condition details.
This is an original antique plate, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
