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  • An alchemist stoking a furnace in a dimly lit room, as daylight shines through a window. Engraving by P-F. Basan after T. Wyck.
  • A surgeon removing moles from a grimacing patient's head. Engraving after D. Teniers.
  • A man with tankard in hand leans by a window. Engraving by P. Chenu, 1756, after A. van Ostade.
  • Certaine workes of chirurgerie / newly compiled and published by Thomas Gale.
  • Certaine workes of chirurgerie / newly compiled and published by Thomas Gale.
  • Certaine workes of chirurgerie / newly compiled and published by Thomas Gale.
  • A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher. Oil painting after C.W.E. Dietrich (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
  • A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher. Oil painting after C.W.E. Dietrich (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
  • A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher. Oil painting after C.W.E. Dietrich (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
  • A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher. Oil painting after C.W.E. Dietrich (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
  • A travelling medicine vendor. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635.
  • A travelling medicine vendor. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635.
  • A travelling medicine vendor. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635.
  • Nicolaus Copernicus. Line engraving by C.B. after the Comte de Caylus.
  • Caspar Bauhin. Line engraving by J. F. Borgnet, 1784.
  • A naked woman walks on the level, up steps and up an incline. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • The school of Athens: a gathering of Greek philosophers disputing with Saint Paul the Apostle. Engraving by G. Ghisi, 1550, after Raphael.
  • Rome, the Spanish Steps: a woman and a boy looking at a male dwarf standing at the foot of the steps. Wash drawing by C.L., 180-.
  • Théodore Tronchin. Line engraving by R. Gaillard, 1782, after J.E. Liotard.
  • Andreas Vesalius. Lithograph by Minster et Wiesener (?) after A. Mouilleron, 1853, after E.J.C. Hamman, 1849.
  • Two men studying a corpse by the light of a candle stuck in its chest. Etching after a drawing attributed to Polidoro Caldara (Polidoro da Caravaggio).
  • Two men studying a corpse by the light of a candle stuck in its chest. Etching after a drawing attributed to Polidoro Caldara (Polidoro da Caravaggio).
  • Two men studying a corpse by the light of a candle stuck in its chest. Etching after a drawing attributed to Polidoro Caldara (Polidoro da Caravaggio).
  • Two men studying a corpse by the light of a candle stuck in its chest. Etching after a drawing attributed to Polidoro Caldara (Polidoro da Caravaggio).
  • An Italian landscape in which a sick person is being carried to a hospital. Etching by H. van Swanevelt.
  • A man standing, anterior view with brain and contents of thorax and abdomen exposed. Engraving by Giulio de' Musi, by 1552, first published in 1714.
  • Monks singing the Liturgy of the Hours; one monk doing penance. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu, 1795.
  • An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.
  • An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.
  • Soldat im irrenhaus.