Antique Print-SURGERY-MEDICAL INSTRUMENT-BANDAGE-Diderot-Benard-1779

Price: € 88,50

Subject: Plate 27: 'Chirurgie.' (Surgery). This plate shows surgical instruments and bandages to treat different ailments.

Condition: Very good, given age. Small holes in left margin from binding. Paper edges occasionally a bit frayed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Copperplate engraving / etching on a verge type hand-laid paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 21 x 27 cm. The image size is ca. 14.6 x 22.2 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 8.3 x 10.6 inch. The image size is ca. 5.7 x 8.7 inch.

Part Number: 35859

Location: A248-32

Description: This antique print originates from: 'The Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, par une Societe de Gens de lettres.', which was published under the direction of Diderot and d'Alembert. The original folio ed. contained 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates and was published between 1751 and 1772. It contained 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors. This encyclopdia was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a means to propagate the ideas of the French Enlightment. The impact of this encyclopedia was enormous. This plate is from the 4to edition published by Pellet, Imprimeur-Libraire in Geneva, 1779.

Artists and Engravers: Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a French philosopher, art critic and writer. Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. This plate by Benard.