19th c. Bock-Steger Anatomical Brain Model, Germany Dressers MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Screen print

MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Screen print on wove paper

The top consists of wide planks of wood which indicates the age of the piece

The bookcases came out of the offices of Caspar Lumber Company in San Francisco

Thus began the famed Dunlap hat company

Split down the middle professionally repaired

19th c. Bock-Steger Anatomical Brain Model, Germany Dressers MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Screen printABOUT A hand crafted and painted plaster anatomical model of the human brain. Franz Josef Steger and pathological anatomist Carl Ernst Bock collaborated at the University of Leipzig to produce anatomical models for the instruction of students in the 19th century. Such models were either direct casts or sculpted in plaster, porcelain or wax. Steger also explored the early use of plastics. However, it is the plaster models for which he is famous. Shown