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Chapter VI: 'De organis speciei propagandae'

Engraving of nude male and female figures with snake and skull.

A wood cutting showing an Elizabethan street scene. taken from 'A Book of Roxburghe Ballads'

Hermaphrodite twins joined at the back, born at Rorbach near Heidelberg, 1486.

A classical shape male figure standing in the nude.

An image of the front of a pamphlet showing the monstrous child born in Taunton Dean in Somerset.

Anatomical study of the female reproductive system and kidneys, Pieter van Gunst, after Gerard de Lairesse

Statue of a hermaphrodite. He keeps his clothes up. On the base the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection at the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.

Sheet from a book about the working of the female genitals, with letterpress on the reverse. Tabula XXIV.

A woman is between the legs of a woman giving birth and holds a baby. The pregnant woman calls for the help of Juno Lucina (goddess of birth). Under is a four-line verse in Italian. The show is contained in a decorative frame with putti and skulls.

Allegory on the birth of Willem Hendrik, Prince of Brandenburg in 1649. In a cradle, the prince is surrounded by, among others, Juno, Minerva and Abundance. In the air Faam blows a praising trumpet and small angels carry symbols of the future power…