Exhibition hopes to give Gray's Anatomy artist his proper due

doi:10.1136/bmj.39526.647176.DB

BMJ 2008;336:688-689 (29 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39526.647176.DB (published 26 March 2008)

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Exhibition hopes to give Gray’s Anatomy artist his proper due

Wendy Moore

¹ London

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When two friends, both young surgeons at St George’s Hospital,London, joined forces in 1855 to create a practical and affordableanatomy textbook for students they could have had little ideaof the eventual success of their project. Celebrating its 150thanniversary this year, with its 40th edition about to roll offthe press, Gray’s Anatomy has become the world’slongest running and probably best known anatomical work.

Yet, although the book’s author, Henry Gray, has becomea household name, its illustrator, Henry Vandyke Carter, hasrarely been honoured.

Attempting to redress the balance, the Royal College of Surgeonsof England is staging an exhibition at its headquarters in Lincoln’sInn Fields, London, from 3 April to 2 May, which tells the storyof the origins of Gray’s Anatomy with rare materials fromits history. The display will include two first editions ofthe book as well as first proofs . . . [Full text of this article]

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