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  • A male écorché figure, of whom only the right side of his body has been flayed. He holds the removed skin of his right side in his right hand and pulls back the skin of his left abdomen with his left hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché figure, of whom only the right side of his body has been flayed. He holds the removed skin of his right side in his right hand and pulls back the skin of his left abdomen with his left hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • An anatomist making an incision from the neck through the upper ribs of a skeletal cadaver. He stands behind the cadaver, his right hand cutting with a large blade while his left arm comes round the cadaver's neck as he uses his left hand to pull back the ribs at the incision. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • A skeletal cadaver with two flaps of skin of the abdomen cut away to reveal the subcutaneous layer of muscle and fat, labelled "mirac". Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • A nude figure seen from the back with a spinal column of eighteen vertebrae exposed, with the nerves that radiate from it visible. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • 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.
  • A skeleton, seen from the front, with labels giving the latin names of the bones. Photograph after a woodcut, 1501.
  • The bones of the arm. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The muscles of the arm and palm of the hand and geometrical diagrams of the tendons and fibres of different muscles. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • Cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The bones of the hand (fig.1: palmar; fig. 2: dorsal) and the wrist (fig. 3: detail of carpal bones). Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The muscles of the arm, elbow and shoulder and the bones of the lower arm. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The skin removed from the lower leg, exposing the muscles of the lower leg and the sole of the foot. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • Muscles of the shoulder, upper and lower arm. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The muscles of the lower leg and the sole of the foot, dissected and separated, with the tibia and fibula exposed. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The scapula (figures 1-2) and the clavicle (figures 3-4) and the sternum seen from the front (figure 5). Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The muscles of the left thigh, seen from the front. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • A deep dissection of the muscles of the thigh. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The muscles of the back of the lower left leg. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • Muscles of the thigh, seen from the front. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • Muscles of the back and shoulder. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • Three figures of the muscles of the foot, showing the sole of the foot progressively dissected.
  • A suspended lower arm from which the skin and fatty layer has been removed to reveal the muscles. Next to it is a knife and a surgical instrument case with its lid. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The muscles of the lower arm which act on the fingers, thumb and wrist raised from their origins and left at their insertions. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • A deep dissection of the muscles of the thigh, seen from the back. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The muscles of the lower leg. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The muscles of the lower leg with the tendons separated from each other. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.