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  • A human skeleton, seen from the back, bent forward with his hands clasped to his skull, after Vesalius. Engraving by Benard, 1779, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • A crowned skeleton with three arrows. Etching, 1806.
  • Muscles and bones of the hand. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • Skulls and skull fragments, showing different shapes of skulls and variations in sutures, after Eustachius. Etching by I. Basire, 1743, after an engraving, c. 1552.
  • Fourteen human skeletons performing activities symbolic of life and death. Engraving, 1740 or 1780, after C. Martínez, ca. 1680 (?).
  • The skeleton of a friar in the role of Death as the reaper, surrounded by skulls, ribs and vertebrae, in a chapel. Photograph.
  • Caerwent, Wales: a grave showing a skeleton during excavation. Photograph, 1910.
  • Five scenes with a skeleton. Drawings attributed to H.K. Browne [Phiz].
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • The figure of a woman divided in two parts: half skeleton, half lady of fashion, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical quotations. Etching, 17--, attributed to V. Green.
  • Three anatomical dissections taking place in an attic. Coloured lithograph by T. C. Wilson after a pen and wash drawing by T. Rowlandson.
  • The church of San Lorenzo, Florence, with funerary decorations to mark the death of King Henri IV of France. Etching, 1610.
  • The pelvis of an articulated skeleton. Drawing, ca. 1560 (?).
  • Monuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), encountered by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by W. Woollett, 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • Putti perform an anatomical dissection on a dog; others hold a jar containing a human foetus; two more play with a spider; representing anatomy and natural history. Etching by B. Picart, 1729.
  • A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of sin. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870, after J. Bakewell.
  • A skeleton clutching a bottle labelled "Alcoholisme"; advertising an exhibition on alcohol abuse in the Hague, 1911. Lithograph, 1911, after F.M.
  • A skeleton seated beside the hammock of a dying man. Drawing by H.K. Browne (Phiz).
  • A skeleton as a fashionably dressed woman. Engraving attributed to Gerhard Altzenbach, 16--.
  • [Newspaper clipping showing the skeletons of Mademoiselle Crachani, a Sicilian dwarf and Patrick O'Brien, the Irish Giant on display at the Royal College of Surgeons].
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.
  • Anatomy Theatre, Leiden, the Netherlands. Line engraving.
  • Four scenes with a skeleton: the skeleton directing an astronomer-alchemist, poisoning the drink of lovers, contemplating a flagellant, and taking away a man. Drawings attributed to H.K. Browne [Phiz].
  • The bones of the pelvis. Engraving by G. Bartoli.
  • Rembrandt at the door of the Amsterdam anatomy theatre. Process print, 1927, of an engraving by C. L. van Kesteren after C. Bisschop.
  • Teeth, skull and patella (knee cap), the latter after Clopton Havers. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • Philippines: skulls and a skeleton of the dead lying on the ground. Photograph, 19--.
  • A human skeleton, leaning against a tomb, after Vesalius: lateral view. Engraving by Benard, 1779, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • A woman beleaguered by four enemies; representing Faith resisting Death, Schism, the World and the Devil. Engraving by Hieronymus Wierix after Maarten de Vos, 156-.