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Last Name Rymsdyk

Given Name Jan van

alt. Names J. v. R. ; John Rymsdyck ; I. W. Rymsdyk / Rymsdyke / Rymsdijk / Riemsdyk ;

Marriage

Children Andrew van Rymsdyk

Year born 1730 c. (first mentioned in 1751) Netherlands

Year died 1788 or 1789

Place of death London, UK ?

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education possibly training in mezzotint by ->Jan L'Admiral (1698 / 1699-1773) in Leyden

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for John Hunter (1728-1793) ; Museums Britannicum (London 1791) ; William Hunter (1718-1783): Anatomy of the human gravid uterus (London 1775) ; Museum Britannicum (1778) ; William Smellie (1697-1763) ; Charles N. Jenty ; Thomas Denman (1733-1815): Parturition (1787) ;

Patronage

Collaborators -> A. von Rymsdyk (son) ; engraver F. G. Aliamet ; H. Bryer ; P. C. Canot ; J. Fougeron / I. Fougeron ; C. Grignion ; C. Knight ; T. Major ; P. Maleuvre ; C. von Mechel ; T. Medland ; Menil ; J. Miller ; J. Mitchel ; G. Powle ; S. F. Ravenet ; G. Scotin ; W. Skelton ; R. Strange ; T. Worlidge ; Edward Fisher ;

Techniques anatomical and zoological drawing, copperplate engraving, mezzotint, and red chalk ; portraiture ;

Sample(s) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy/da_g_II-B-1.html ; http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4925012321_fb849a22c9.jpg ;

Archival sources British Museum Prints ; Hunterian Collection Glasgow ; Pennsylvania Hospital ; http://sterileeye.com/2010/03/19/jan-van-rymsdyk-drawer-of-wombs/ ;

Published sources AKL ; ThB 29 1935: 259 ; Choulant 1920: 296 ; Thornton &Reeves 1983: 85ff. ; Thornton 1982 ; J. W. Huffman: JAMA 208, 1, 1969 ; Obstetr & Gyn 35, 6 (1970): 971-6 ; J. Audiovis: Media, in: Med. 2 (1979): 10 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 2057 & 3543 ;

other Most of Hunter's anatomical plates (1774). In UK 1745-80; London. Rymsdyk: Museum Britannicum 1778; active about 1760/70 in Bristol & London, UK.

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