{"id":5631,"date":"2015-01-29T09:50:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T15:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2016-10-26T13:26:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:26:01","slug":"notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-gautiers-anatomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2015\/01\/29\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-gautiers-anatomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room : Gautier&#8217;s Anatomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5632\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2015\/01\/DAgotyImage-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"DAgotyImage\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2015\/01\/DAgotyImage-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2015\/01\/DAgotyImage.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>JACQUES FABIAN GAUTIER D&#8217;AGOTY (1717-1785). <em>Anatomie de la t\u00eate<\/em>. Paris: Chez le sieur Gautier, M. Duverney, Quillau, 1748.<\/p>\n<p>Gautier, a French printmaker, was an assistant to Le Blon and, like Ladmiral, claimed the color printing process as his own. Gautier\u00a0published some ten collections of colored plates of various portions of the anatomy, and he was the first person to print anatomical plates in color on a large scale.<\/p>\n<p>Choulant writes that &#8220;his anatomic illustrations . . . impress the critical observer with their arrogance and charlatanry and do not recommend themselves to the student of anatomy either for their faithfulness and reliability or for their technique&#8221; (Choulant-Frank, p. 270).<\/p>\n<p>The dissections and preparations for the eight large figures in this atlas of the anatomy of the head were prepared by Joseph Guichard Du Verney, and some of the plates are among the most elaborate produced by Gautier, especially notable for the intricate network of blood vessels which are meticulously indicated by direct color printing.<\/p>\n<p>This extremely rare work is an important piece of book and anatomic illustration.\u00a0 You may view this work in the <a title=\"link to Rare Book Room web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.<\/a> Make a gift to the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences by <a title=\"link to UI foundation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.givetoiowa.org\/GiveToIowa\/WebObjects\/GiveToIowa.woa\/wa\/goTo?area=libraries\" target=\"_blank\">donating online or setting up a recurring gift <\/a>with The University of Iowa Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACQUES FABIAN GAUTIER D&#8217;AGOTY (1717-1785). Anatomie de la t\u00eate. Paris: Chez le sieur Gautier, M. Duverney, Quillau, 1748. Gautier, a French printmaker, was an assistant to Le Blon and, like Ladmiral, claimed the color printing process as his own. Gautier\u00a0published some ten collections of colored plates of various portions of the anatomy, and he was<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2015\/01\/29\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-gautiers-anatomy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room : Gautier&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}