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W. H Lizars 3 Frmd. Anatomical Engravings 1822-6
We are pleased to offer for sale this Set of 3 Anatomical Hand Coloured Medical Engravings by the Scottish engraver and publisher William Home Lizars, taken from 'A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body by his brother John Lizars, which was initially published in twelve parts between 1822 & 1826 by W. H. Lizars and Daniel Lizars Jr. The Plates in the set in order from the left are:
Plate XIV - Abdominal cavity dissection with blood vessels and nerves indicated in red & blue.
Plate XXVII - Leg & foot dissection with blood vessels and nerves indicated in red & blue.
Plate XLIV - Dissection of the groin and thigh.
Prof John Lizars FRSE (1792– 21 May 1860) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist and medical author.
He was Professor of surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and senior surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He performed the first ovariotomy in Scotland in 1825. One of his pupils was Charles Darwin.
Besides authoring an early work on the dangers of tobacco, The Use and Abuse of Tobacco, Lizars published a number of important and beautifully illustrated anatomical texts in the early 19th century. Lizars in 1822 issued the work by which he is now known, A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, accompanied with Descriptions, and Physiological, Pathological, and Surgical Observations, Edinburgh. The plates were done by his brother William under Lizars's close supervision. It was followed in 1835 by Observations on Extraction of diseased Ovaria, illustrated by Plates coloured after Nature, 1835, and in 1835 by a System of Practical Surgery, with numerous explanatory Plates, the Drawings after Nature, Edinburgh.
William Home Lizars (1788 – 30 March 1859) was a Scottish painter and engraver.
The son of Daniel Lizars, and brother of the surgeon John Lizars, he was born at Edinburgh in 1788, and was educated at the high school there. His sister Jean (Jane) Home married Sir William Jardine. His father was a publisher and an engraver who had been a pupil of Andrew Bell, and engraved portraits as book illustrations. Lizars was first apprenticed to his father, from whom he learnt engraving, and then entered as a student under John Graham in the Trustees' Academy at Edinburgh, where he was a fellow-student with Sir David Wilkie.
In 1812, on the death of his father, Lizars had to carry on the business of engraving and copperplate printing in order to support his mother and family. He employed the artists Horatio McCulloch and Daniel Macnee. Another employee was William Howison, mainly on small plates. George Aikman, father of George Aikman the painter, also worked for Lizars before setting up on his own.
Lizars encountered J. J. Audubon in Edinburgh in October 1826, introduced (on Audubon's account) with his portfolio by the naturalists Patrick Neill and Prideaux John Selby. So began an intense period when Lizars helped Audubon meet Edinburgh luminaries likely to be useful to him: Robert Jameson, David Brewster and James Wilson in particular. Lizars had a celebrated portrait of Audubon painted (it is now in the White House), by John Syme, in his wolfskin coat, in late November and the following day took him to meet George Combe and other phrenologists.[6] Lizars had agreed to publish Audubon's Birds of America. After a promising start, the business did not go well, and Audubon moved the production to London. The work was completed by the Havell family.
In the early 1830s he is listed as operating from 3 St James Square, in Edinburgh, the centre for printers at that time. He was still living there at the end of his life.
Lizars perfected a method of etching which performed the functions of wood-engraving, for illustration of books. He died in Edinburgh on 30 March 1859, leaving a widow and family. He is buried in St Cuthbert's Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street. His brother John Lizars, surgeon (d.1860) lies with him. The grave lies on the small mound, south-west of the church.
Lizars took an active part in the foundation of the Royal Scottish Academy.
From 1808 to 1815, Lizars was a frequent exhibitor of portraits, and of sacred and domestic subjects, at exhibitions in Edinburgh. In 1812 he sent two pictures to the Royal Academy in London, Reading the Will and A Scotch Wedding. They were admired, were hung on the line, and were engraved. They went to the National Gallery of Scotland at Edinburgh.
He engraved The Ommeganck at Antwerp, after Gustave Wappers, for the Royal Gallery of Art, and Puck and the Fairies, after Richard Dadd. He also engraved plates of Scottish scenery for publications, and the Anatomical Plates of 1822 for his brother John.
Two pictures of churches by Lizars were in the Royal Scottish Academy's collection. There was a pencil drawing by him, done in 1815, of John Flaxman, in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
The engravings have been double mounted in two tone acid free mountboard and are framed to match in s 1" black frame with silver raised edge and silver outer edge. The engravings will be supplied fitted with new brass hangers, brass picture wire and felt bumpers. They will be ready to hang.
Dimensions of two outer engravings:
Image size: 15 1/4" x 10 1/4" - 38.75cm x 26cm
Frame size: 22 1/4" x 17 1/8" - 56.5cm x 43.5cm
Dimensions of central engraving:
Image size: 16 1/2" x 8 3/4" - 41.9cm x 22.25cm
Frame size: 23 3/8" x 15 1/2" - 59.35cm x 39.35cm
Condition: Very good with no foxing or discolouration, considering they are approximately 192 -196 years old. The mounts and frame are new.
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Plate XIV - Abdominal cavity dissection with blood vessels and nerves indicated in red & blue.
Plate XXVII - Leg & foot dissection with blood vessels and nerves indicated in red & blue.
Plate XLIV - Dissection of the groin and thigh.
Prof John Lizars FRSE (1792– 21 May 1860) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist and medical author.
He was Professor of surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and senior surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He performed the first ovariotomy in Scotland in 1825. One of his pupils was Charles Darwin.
Besides authoring an early work on the dangers of tobacco, The Use and Abuse of Tobacco, Lizars published a number of important and beautifully illustrated anatomical texts in the early 19th century. Lizars in 1822 issued the work by which he is now known, A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, accompanied with Descriptions, and Physiological, Pathological, and Surgical Observations, Edinburgh. The plates were done by his brother William under Lizars's close supervision. It was followed in 1835 by Observations on Extraction of diseased Ovaria, illustrated by Plates coloured after Nature, 1835, and in 1835 by a System of Practical Surgery, with numerous explanatory Plates, the Drawings after Nature, Edinburgh.
William Home Lizars (1788 – 30 March 1859) was a Scottish painter and engraver.
The son of Daniel Lizars, and brother of the surgeon John Lizars, he was born at Edinburgh in 1788, and was educated at the high school there. His sister Jean (Jane) Home married Sir William Jardine. His father was a publisher and an engraver who had been a pupil of Andrew Bell, and engraved portraits as book illustrations. Lizars was first apprenticed to his father, from whom he learnt engraving, and then entered as a student under John Graham in the Trustees' Academy at Edinburgh, where he was a fellow-student with Sir David Wilkie.
In 1812, on the death of his father, Lizars had to carry on the business of engraving and copperplate printing in order to support his mother and family. He employed the artists Horatio McCulloch and Daniel Macnee. Another employee was William Howison, mainly on small plates. George Aikman, father of George Aikman the painter, also worked for Lizars before setting up on his own.
Lizars encountered J. J. Audubon in Edinburgh in October 1826, introduced (on Audubon's account) with his portfolio by the naturalists Patrick Neill and Prideaux John Selby. So began an intense period when Lizars helped Audubon meet Edinburgh luminaries likely to be useful to him: Robert Jameson, David Brewster and James Wilson in particular. Lizars had a celebrated portrait of Audubon painted (it is now in the White House), by John Syme, in his wolfskin coat, in late November and the following day took him to meet George Combe and other phrenologists.[6] Lizars had agreed to publish Audubon's Birds of America. After a promising start, the business did not go well, and Audubon moved the production to London. The work was completed by the Havell family.
In the early 1830s he is listed as operating from 3 St James Square, in Edinburgh, the centre for printers at that time. He was still living there at the end of his life.
Lizars perfected a method of etching which performed the functions of wood-engraving, for illustration of books. He died in Edinburgh on 30 March 1859, leaving a widow and family. He is buried in St Cuthbert's Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street. His brother John Lizars, surgeon (d.1860) lies with him. The grave lies on the small mound, south-west of the church.
Lizars took an active part in the foundation of the Royal Scottish Academy.
From 1808 to 1815, Lizars was a frequent exhibitor of portraits, and of sacred and domestic subjects, at exhibitions in Edinburgh. In 1812 he sent two pictures to the Royal Academy in London, Reading the Will and A Scotch Wedding. They were admired, were hung on the line, and were engraved. They went to the National Gallery of Scotland at Edinburgh.
He engraved The Ommeganck at Antwerp, after Gustave Wappers, for the Royal Gallery of Art, and Puck and the Fairies, after Richard Dadd. He also engraved plates of Scottish scenery for publications, and the Anatomical Plates of 1822 for his brother John.
Two pictures of churches by Lizars were in the Royal Scottish Academy's collection. There was a pencil drawing by him, done in 1815, of John Flaxman, in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
The engravings have been double mounted in two tone acid free mountboard and are framed to match in s 1" black frame with silver raised edge and silver outer edge. The engravings will be supplied fitted with new brass hangers, brass picture wire and felt bumpers. They will be ready to hang.
Dimensions of two outer engravings:
Image size: 15 1/4" x 10 1/4" - 38.75cm x 26cm
Frame size: 22 1/4" x 17 1/8" - 56.5cm x 43.5cm
Dimensions of central engraving:
Image size: 16 1/2" x 8 3/4" - 41.9cm x 22.25cm
Frame size: 23 3/8" x 15 1/2" - 59.35cm x 39.35cm
Condition: Very good with no foxing or discolouration, considering they are approximately 192 -196 years old. The mounts and frame are new.
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Date 1822-26
Regency Antiques Material Paper
Origin Scottish
Item code as237a2182
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Kent
England, UK
Tel : 01622 812556
Non UK callers : +44 1622 812556
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