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Last Name Schijnvoet

Given Name Jacobus

alt. Names J. S. ; Jacob / Jakob Shinevoet / Schynvoet ; see also DSI entry 4834

Marriage

Children

Year born 1685 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Year died 1733, not 1723

Place of death

Father's occupation graphic artist, engraver Simon Schijnvoet (1652-1727)

Relatives

Education pupil of B. Picaxt

Country of Activity Netherlands

Worked for lithotomist William Cheselden (1688-1752): Osteographia 1733; Atlas Historique, Ou Nouvelle Introduction A l'Histoire, à la Chronologie et à la Géographie Ancienne & Moderne, ed. 4; Zederyke zinnebeelden der tonge, 1716

Patronage

Collaborators ->Gerard vander Gucht

Techniques anatomical etching, drawing, miniature painting

Sample(s) http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/print-room/osteographia,59,RAL.html?type=past

Archival sources Roy.Coll.of Surgeons of England Libr.; www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&person=10217

Published sources AKL; ThB 30 1936, 393; Thornton & Reeves 1983: 81f; William Le Fanu: Anat. Drawings, in Oud Holland 75, 1960: Lapage 1961: 28 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Alan Bewell in Ann B. Shteir & B. Lightman (eds.): 2006: 39 ;

other in London; used camera obscura with Cheselden: see J. J. Gomiz Leon: Hist Urology 62(9) 2009:695-701. Further VIAF identifiers: 302588391 and 169204375.

viaf1 293857510

viaf2 234979007

viaf3 96056651

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