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  • Portrait of Rufus of Epheus, anatomist
  • Jean-Zuléma Amussat (1796-1856), surgeon-anatomist. Oil painting.
  • Richard Lower (1631-1691), anatomist. Oil painting by Jacob Huysmans.
  • Richard Lower (1631-1691), anatomist. Oil painting by Jacob Huysmans.
  • A boy requesting an anatomist to mend his broken jug. Coloured lithograph.
  • John Hunter (1728-1793), surgeon and anatomist. Oil painting after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • John Hunter (1728-1793), surgeon and anatomist. Oil painting after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • John Hunter (1728-1793), surgeon and anatomist. Oil painting after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, the anatomist : (1452-1519) / by J. Playfair McMurrich.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, the anatomist : (1452-1519) / by J. Playfair McMurrich.
  • John Hunter (1728-1793), surgeon and anatomist. Oil painting after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, the anatomist : (1452-1519) / by J. Playfair McMurrich.
  • John Hunter (1728-1793), surgeon and anatomist. Oil painting after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • John Hunter (1728-1793), surgeon and anatomist. Oil painting after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, the anatomist : (1452-1519) / by J. Playfair McMurrich.
  • The anatomist's vade mecum: containing the anatomy and physiology of the human body / [Robert Hooper].
  • Portrait of Govaert Bidloo (1649-1713). Dutch anatomist. A. Blooteling after de Lairesse (illustrator or Bidloo's Anatomy)
  • The Dutch anatomist Steven Blankaart (1650-1704) performing a dissection in an anatomy theatre, with seven observers. Engraving, 1687.
  • Mundinus, the Italian anatomist, making his first dissection in the anatomy theatre at Bologna, 1318. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • The Parisian surgeon and anatomist A. Velpeau (1795-1867) performing an anatomical dissection. Etching, after F.N.A. Feyen-Perrin, 1864.
  • A man once designated as Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), anatomist. Oil painting by a follower of a Venetian painter, 16th century.
  • A man formerly designated as Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), anatomist. Oil painting by a follower of a Venetian painter, 16th century.
  • A man formerly designated as Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), anatomist. Oil painting by a follower of a Venetian painter, 16th century.
  • An aged anatomist selecting his dissection instrument while a young woman tries to warn that his subject is alive. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An aged anatomist selecting his dissection instrument while a young woman tries to warn that his subject is alive. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • The dissecting room of an anatomist, with a man thought to be dead waking up and sitting up in his coffin. Drawing, 183- (?).
  • Portrait of Samuel Thomas von Sommering [1755 - 1830], physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor, who discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye.
  • An anatomist, "Mr Le Professeur C...", dissecting a cadaver laid out on a trestle table, while a seated man looks on. Etching by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1869.
  • Portrait of Gabriele Fallopius (Falloppio) (1523-1562), pupil of Vesalius and great anatomist in his own right. From a portrait in the Anatomy Institute, in the University of Modena
  • An anatomist meditates on the corpse of a beautiful young woman, laid out on a table next to his desk. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after G. C. von Max, 1869.