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An unconscious naked man lying on a table being attacked by little demons armed with surgical instruments; representing the effects of chloroform on the human body
1 painting : watercolour, with gouache, bodycolour and pencil ; sheet 42.8 x 57 cm
Anatomical dissection by Andreas Vesalius of a female cadaver, attended by a large crowd of onlookers
1 print : woodcut ; image 35.2 x 24.3 cm
Anatomical fugitive sheet (man)
Anatomical fugitive sheet 291. Title at the top of the sheet: 'The Anathomye of the inward parts of man...', London: T. Raymalde, c. 1540. Pasted in a copy of Henri de Mondeville Chirurgia, c. 1476. Ms. 564. Seated male figure with first layer raised…
Anatomical fugitive sheets
anatomical fugitive sheet 291. Pasted in a copy of Henri de Mondeville Chirurgia, c. 1476
a woman, flapbook - flap is blank (seems to have faded), under side is her anatomy, there is a leaf that you can lift to see her sex - sex has worn down with…
a woman, flapbook - flap is blank (seems to have faded), under side is her anatomy, there is a leaf that you can lift to see her sex - sex has worn down with…
Andreas Vesalius
"In 1543, Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to publish the book De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V and which many believe was…
Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes
1 drawing : black chalk heightened with white gouache ; sheet 62.5 x 47.8 cm
Lettering
Chasselat L'an 8. De son art bienfaisant il agrandit la sphère. Esculape conduit sa main, Minerve sa pensée. Il réunit enfin L'art de guérir et l'art de plaire.…
Lettering
Chasselat L'an 8. De son art bienfaisant il agrandit la sphère. Esculape conduit sa main, Minerve sa pensée. Il réunit enfin L'art de guérir et l'art de plaire.…
Anne Manning and Betty Upton
1 print : etching ; platemark 13.1 x 9 cm
Poster stuck on wall of cottage reads "Leake's pills. Mercury exploded, desperate cases cured in three days. Mortified limbs scraped with a coal shovel. Flesh regenerated on bare bones." A sheet on the…
Poster stuck on wall of cottage reads "Leake's pills. Mercury exploded, desperate cases cured in three days. Mortified limbs scraped with a coal shovel. Flesh regenerated on bare bones." A sheet on the…
