Title
Male and female bodies on the cover of Mikrokosmographia, by Anonymous (1615)
Description
Engraving of male and female bodies that appear on the cover of Mikrokosmographia: A description of the body of man: Together with the controversies thereto belonging, by Helkiah Crooke (1615), printed in London by William Iaggard dwelling in the Barbican, and are there to be sold.
Both the male and female figures appear alive. The woman's body is used to show the reproductive organs and the man's the veins. The image echoes Adam and Eve. Exhibitionism of the man and modesty of the woman in the position of their hands.
Both the male and female figures appear alive. The woman's body is used to show the reproductive organs and the man's the veins. The image echoes Adam and Eve. Exhibitionism of the man and modesty of the woman in the position of their hands.
Creator
Anonymous (Unknown)
Source
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), The University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia, the US:
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=crooke&PagePosition=3
Also found in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microcosmographia,_Crooke,_1615_-_0003.jpg
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171004154003/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microcosmographia,_Crooke,_1615_-_0003.jpg
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=crooke&PagePosition=3
Also found in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microcosmographia,_Crooke,_1615_-_0003.jpg
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171004154003/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microcosmographia,_Crooke,_1615_-_0003.jpg
Date
1615
Format
Engraving.
Dimensions: Unknown
Dimensions: Unknown
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