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  • The fallibility of the senses: above, justice, fame and deceit; below, doctors conducting an autopsy on a cadaver, surrounded by onlookers. Engraving, 1692.
  • Athena, Hermes and Apollo; putti holding various objects; calligraphic lettering. Engraving by Johann Ulrich Krauss after G. de Lairesse, ca. 1 (?).
  • François Mauriceau. Line engraving by J.A. Boener, 1680.
  • Two snakes holding a book; surmounted by a crowned eagle. Engraving, 1702.
  • Death as a winged skeleton riding into battle. Etching by J. Gamelin after himself, 1778.
  • Above, treatment of gout, below, obstetrics. Engraving.
  • Ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore (Galen, Pliny, Hippocrates etc.); and Venus and Adonis in the gardens of Adonis. Woodcut, 1532.
  • Mathematicians: Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Euclid, Nicomachus, Aristoxenus and Iamblichus. Engraving after J. van Steegeren, 1667 or 1668.
  • Hera, Hercules, Athena (?) and other Greek divinities with birds, a lion, a dog and a cow; representing animal locomotion. Engraving, 1710.
  • A laurel branch and a palm branch occupied by a snake and a dove; representing success when cunning (the snake) is allied to simplicity (the dove). Woodcut and letterpress, 1621.
  • Young women representing poetry and drawing, with examples of sculpture, literature, music, painting, and objets d'art. Wood engraving by H. Linton after A. Lumley.
  • An ancient priest killing a lamb as a sacrifice amidst a crowd of people. Etching by J. van den Aveele, 1681.
  • The arts of Minerva reduce the power of Time to end life, but death from old age or from plague still exists. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.
  • Title page to a statistical analysis of mortality during the plague epidemic in London of 1665. Etching, 18--.
  • The entrance to a temple (a portico with an arch) representing access to the Bible. Engraving after John Chantry, 1683.
  • The entrance to a temple (a portico with an arch) representing access to the Bible. Engraving after John Chantry, 1683.
  • Johannes Vesling, seated below a swag of surgical instruments, indicates illustrations of the heart in a book displayed by a skeletal corpse. Engraving 1666.
  • Children being instructed in the exploits of famous explorers such as Columbus and Cook, whose portraits are shown in roundels. Etching by R. Pollard after Dodd, 17--.
  • In a rural garden, two boys draw the figure of Nature represented as a woman with six breasts feeding two infants; around, examples of nature and education. Engraving by E.J.N. de Ghendt after C.P. Marillier, ca. 1788/1793.
  • Two female figures standing on either side of drapery bearing the title of Vesling's Syntagma anatomicum: beyond, the anatomy theatre of the University of Padua. Engraving by Giovanni Georgi, 1647.
  • The entrance to a temple (a portico with an arch) representing access to the Bible. Engraving after John Chantry, 1683.
  • Apes playing with a goldsmith's apparatus. Engraving by Nicolaes de Bruyn, ca 1621.
  • An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving of 1649 by Renier van Persyn after a design of 1626 by Crispijn de Passe the second.
  • Above, a woman personifying health addresses Death; below, Apollo, attended by an agitated crowd of patients, heals a sick man; representing the medical writings of Frederik Dekkers. Etching.
  • The portrait of Andreas Laurentius (Dulaurens) within a frame decorated with a pediment, scrollwork and écorché figures. Engraving, 1627.
  • The knowledge of good and evil, and the consequences of that knowledge, with Adam and Eve and the serpent. Engraving by J. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
  • An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.
  • Saint Antoninus. Woodcut.
  • Skeleton and écorché figure holding placard featuring male and female figures: half-title page to 'Trattato di anatomia pittorica'. Lithograph after C. Squanquerillo, 1839.
  • Elinour Rummin, an English ale-wife, with a tankard in each hand. Engraving with letterpress, 1813 1624.