Meredith Gamer
Meredith Gamer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.
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Scalpel to Burin: A Material History of William Hunter’s Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus
Meredith Gamer
Description: William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
Among historians of art and medicine alike, William Hunter’s Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures (1774) is best known for its engraved plates. Thirty-four in all, these depict the pregnant human womb at various stages of development, and in progressive...
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Meredith Gamer
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Copyright© 2018 Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.109-125
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00250.006
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21204
Chapter subject tags:Human dissectionPlaster casts