Ottavio Muzzi

Liver Disease - Lithograph By Ottavio Muzzi - 1843

1843

Liver Disease is a lithograph hand colored by Ottavio Muzzi for the edition of Antoine Chazal, Human Anatomy, Printers Batelli and Ridolfi, 1843. The work belongs to the Atlante gen...

Liver Diseases is a lithograph hand colored by Ottavio Muzzi for the edition of Antoine Chazal, Human Anatomy, Printers Batelli and Ridolfi, realized in 1843. Signed on plate on the...

This antique Hirschfeld anatomy print of the nerves of the stomach, liver and spleen is Plate 70 from Hirschfeld and Leveille's Nevrologie atlas, an original hand-coloured lithograph...

This antique anatomy print of the lateral ventricles opened is an original 1866 hand coloured lithograph from Hirschfeld and Leveille's Nevrologie atlas, published in Paris by G. Masson. It is plate 17 in the atlas. The plate shows horizontal dissections of the cerebrum from above, the hemispheres cut down to expose the lateral ventricles, the caudate nucleus and thalamus, the fornix and the choroid plexus, with an enlarged view of the ventricular floor and two isolated specimens. 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 coloured 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. As an antique anatomy print it rewards close looking, and it sits naturally in a collection of nineteenth century scientific illustration. A Hirschfeld lithograph...