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  • Kings examine the skeleton of King Croesus; allegory of vanity in the face of death. Etching by A. Allard.
  • A skeleton, seen from the front, with labels giving the latin names of the bones. Photograph after a woodcut, 1501.
  • A human skeleton, seen from the back, bent forward with his hands clasped to his skull, after Vesalius. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • Standing skeleton, seen from the side, resting right elbow on a pedestal, with left hand resting on a skull. Pen and ink wash drawing by J. Mallcott after A. Vesalius, 1796.
  • The diminished Napoleon before his despondent relief troops squeezed into the skeletons of their predecessors, referring to French military losses. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • A group of dandified tailors attending a lecture, given by a grotesquely fashionable tailor, on "anatomical cutting". Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.
  • Bones of the foot, forearm, and hand. Crayon manner print by G. Smith, 18th century.
  • An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.
  • A woman divided into two, representing life and death. Oil painting.
  • A provocative naked young woman lying on a bed, death (a cloaked skeleton) sits at her side, a naked man walks away from the bed with his head bowed, towards a throng of diseased and dying people; representing syphilis. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.
  • A skeleton holding a burning torch in front of broken blackout planks; advertising the danger of death in German cities from inadequate blackout in World War II. Lithograph after R.H.M. Hahn, 194-.
  • Christ carries the bodily remains of the dead up a ladder to his position on the cross. Etching by A. Hirschvogel, 1547.
  • Two skeletons and one half-skeleton, half-female figure, with contours of the overlying body. Etching by J. García Hidalgo, ca. 1691.
  • The sense of taste: diners around a feasting table containing a swan and a human skeleton, above, scenes of communion and Abraham and the three angels. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • A cherubic Aesculapius fends off death with medicine. Engraving by Le Roy after C-P. Marillier.
  • Skeletons of a male giant and a female dwarf, displayed at the Royal College of Surgeons. Process print.
  • The base of the skull and foetal skeletons of different ages. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • A skeleton and its shadow. Pen and ink drawing by Joyce Cutler Shaw, 1992.
  • Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.
  • The bones of the human skeleton: the skull and the vertebrae. Engraving, 1686.
  • Five scenes with a skeleton. Drawings attributed to H.K. Browne [Phiz].
  • The skeleton of a child standing in an Italianate landscape. Engraving after W. Cheselden, 1733.
  • A human skeleton, leaning against a tomb: lateral view. Engraving by R. Benard, late 18th century, after A. Vesalius, 1543.
  • Michael Schüppach being consulted by a gentleman, who is grasped at the shoulders by a skeleton. Engraving by C. Mechel, 1775.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • A woman divided into two, representing life and death. Oil painting.
  • The diminished Napoleon before his despondent relief troops squeezed into the skeletons of their predecessors, referring to French military losses. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • An ankylosis of the bones of the fractured right femur (thigh-bone) and tibia (lower leg bone) (figs 1-2) and the radius and ulna (bones of the forearm) joined by a flexible callus (figs 3-4) Engraving, 1749.
  • The ribs. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.