Muscles of the legs and feet: an écorché figure, shown from behind, kneels to reveal the sole of the left foot. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1759.

  • Gautier Dagoty, 1717-1785.
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[1759]
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Muscles of the legs and feet: an écorché figure, shown from behind, kneels to reveal the sole of the left foot. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1759. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, published a series of anatomy plates using a colour mezzotint process which had first been developed by Jacob Christoph Le Blon (1667-1741), in whose workshop Gautier d'Agoty had served as an assistant. In 1737, Le Blon obtained a copyright to publish a complete colour anatomy atlas, which never appeared. To Le Blon's process, which used the three colours of red, yellow and blue, Gautier d'Agoty added black and claimed the process to be his own invention.

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[Paris] : [Gautier], [1759]

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1 print : mezzotint, printed in colours ; platemark 60.8 x 46.4 cm

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Suplement ... par Mr. Gautier Individual areas lettered for a key, which appears beneath the image

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Wellcome Collection 572108i

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