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  • Anatomical dissection by Andreas Vesalius of a female cadaver, attended by a large crowd of onlookers. Woodcut, 1555.
  • Anatomical dissection by Andreas Vesalius of a female cadaver, attended by a large crowd of onlookers. Woodcut, 1555.
  • The nervous system of the human body. Engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1726, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • The venous and arterial system of the human body. Engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1726, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • The human venous system. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • An arrangement of the spinal nerves. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • Muscleman, in a landscape, seen from behind. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • Muscleman, in a landscape, seen from the front. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • A skeleton, contemplating a skull: lateral view. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • Muscleman, in a landscape, seen from the front. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • Muscle man, in a landscape, seen from the back. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • The brains of dissected heads. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • Muscleman, in a landscape, seen from the front. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • The brain, in right profile with the glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves and, to the right, a view of the base of the brain. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • A torso, dissected to reveal the liver, stomach and intestines. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543, after A. Vesalius.
  • Anatomical instruments on a table used for vivisection. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • An architectural loggia of Corinthian columns and pilasters with Adam and Eve. Engraving by P. Huys after L. van Noort, 1568.
  • The arterial system of the human body. Engraving, 1568.
  • The venous and arterial system of the human body with internal organs and detail figures of the generative system. Engraving, 1568.
  • The vascular and arterial system of the human brain (II), the pulmonary artery (III), the venal artery (IIII) and the portal system of veins (I). Engraving, 1568.
  • An écorché, seen in right profile, walking towards the right. Engraving, 1568.
  • Two figures with their thoracic cavity exposed, one dissecting the other (figs I-II), together with illustrations mainly of the heart (figs III-XI) and two of the lungs (figs XII-XIII). Engraving, 1568.
  • A male écorché standing, leaning against a tree, exposing the anatomy of his thorax and his left breast. Woodcut by François Jollat, 1545, after Étienne de La Rivière and Charles Estienne.
  • A male écorché standing, leaning against a tree, exposing the anatomy of his thorax and his left breast. Woodcut by François Jollat, 1545, after Étienne de La Rivière and Charles Estienne.
  • A male écorché seated, exposing his abdomen, with his bladder, rectum and anus on a ledge beside him. Woodcut by François Jollat, 1545, after Étienne de La Rivière and Charles Estienne.
  • A male écorché seated, exposing his abdomen, with his bladder, rectum and anus on a ledge beside him. Woodcut by François Jollat, 1545, after Étienne de La Rivière and Charles Estienne.
  • Patients wait in the outpatients' department of a hospital. Drypoint by D. Thorne.
  • Patients wait in the outpatients' department of a hospital. Drypoint by D. Thorne.
  • Decorated initial T with putti stringing a dog over the bar of the letter. Woodcut and letterpress, 1543.
  • Two male figures, seen from the front and back, with the cutaneous veins of the human body displayed. Engraving, 1568.