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5236535
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Prints / graphics
Title
LAURENTIUS HEISTERUS D. ANAT. CHIRURG ac THEOR. PROF. PUBL. ALTORFINUS.
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16,9 x 10,2
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Portrait bust to the left within oval of the German anatomist, surgeon and botanist Lorenz Heister (1683-1758) (aka Laurentius Heisterus). Heister studied in Leiden and Amsterdam, among other places. He taught at the University of Altdorf, among others. The oval within a rectangular frame, with a curtain that partly covers the oval. At the bottom of the title on a pedestal. Copper engraving, maker unknown. Made around 1750.

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