Anatomical machines Anatomical machines The anatomical machines (Italian: "macchine anatomiche") are a couple of anatomical models reproducing the human circulatory system, exposed in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples. Realised in the second half of the 18th century, they are built on top of a couple of human skeletons, a male and a female. The reproduction of the vessel system was realised with metal wire, wax and silk, but because of its richness in details, for a long time it was believed that it was of natural origin instead. The models were commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro, prince of Sansevero, and realised by
Anna Elisabeth Hartwick lace to the queen, Louise of the Netherlands, and the Swedish court. Anna Elisabeth Hartwick Anna Elisabeth Hartwick (1796-1882) was a Swedish lace industrialist. She lived in Vadstena, which had a long history of professional lace making. In the 18th-century, individual makers of bobbin lace sold their works to peddlers, but in the 19th-century, this small scale industry developed in to a lager industry dominated by Anna Elisabeth Hartwick and her main rival Catharina Lidman (1792-1856). Hartwick bought up lace from many of the lace makers of Vadstena and had them sold through her shop and through sails persons employed