Hand Anatomy Prints
The hand from the atlases: Johannes Sobotta's colour plates of 1919, the bones of the hand from the palm and the back, the bones of the hand and wrist from the side, the muscles of the hand in a superficial and a deep layer, and the ligaments and tendons of the hand; Albinus's engraving of the muscles of the hand and forearm from 1747; and Eustachi's skeletal plate with the bones of the hand, published in 1714.
7 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
The plates
Five of the seven are Sobotta chromolithographs from the first volume of the Atlas der deskriptiven Anatomie des Menschen, 1919: the bones of the hand seen from the palm and from the back on one sheet, the hand and wrist from the side, the muscles of the hand in a superficial layer and in the deep layers beneath, and the ligaments and tendons that run across the wrist and fingers. Albinus's engraving of the muscles of the hand and forearm, from the Tabulae sceleti et musculorum of 1747, and Eustachi's engraved bones of the hand from 1714 give the set its two older voices.
Who hangs a hand
Hand surgeons, hand therapists and physiotherapists hang the bones and the tendons where a patient can follow the explanation; the rest go to people who work with their hands and know it, surgeons, pianists, potters, climbers, and to the drawing studio, where the hand is the hardest thing to draw and a Sobotta plate of its bones is a standing reference. The bones-of-the-hand plate, two hands side by side on a pale ground, is also one of the most purely graphic sheets in the atlas.
Sizes and framing
The Sobotta and Albinus plates print up to 24×36, the Eustachi plate up to 16×24; 16×24 is the natural size for a hand, large enough to read the carpals, small enough to pair. Each is offered full-bleed or as a captioned specimen on cream, on 250 gsm archival paper, unframed or framed in black or dark wood with no mat. Bones and tendons make a pair; bones, muscles and tendons a trio, and three or more prints take 10% off automatically.