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  • William Burke (centre), Dr Alexander Monro III (top left), William Robertson (top right), Thomas Beveridge (lower left), Dr Robert Knox (lower right) Silhouettes, c. 1830.
  • M0002337: Portrait of Alexander MacAlister (1844-1919)
  • An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving of 1649 by Renier van Persyn after a design of 1626 by Crispijn de Passe the second.
  • An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.
  • M0008100: Portrait of John Goodsir (1814-1867)
  • Post-mortem of a woman. Gouache painting, after a fifteenth-century manuscript illustration.
  • M0002337: Portrait of Alexander MacAlister (1844-1919)
  • M0006977: Portrait possibly of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
  • The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • William Pitt the younger and his ministers as anatomists dissecting the body of the Prince of Wales; representing Pitt's reduction of the powers of the regent. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1788/1789.
  • Michelangelo drawing from an anatomized cadaver. Photogravure after M. J. A. Mercié.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1906, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • A boy requesting an anatomist to mend his broken jug. Coloured lithograph.
  • An anatomical dissection in the ancient world, in a landscape setting. Engraving, 1801.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • The Dutch anatomist Steven Blankaart (1650-1704) performing a dissection in an anatomy theatre, with seven observers. Engraving, 1687.
  • M0006683: Portrait of Jean-Zuléma Amussat (1796-1856)
  • Michelangelo drawing from an anatomized cadaver. Photogravure after M. J. A. Mercié.
  • Two anatomists dissecting a corpse, surrounded by birds, a cat, a dog and mice. Etching by S. Ireland after J. H. Mortimer, 17--.
  • M0006623: Portrait of Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835)
  • An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.
  • 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 dissection, with five attending figures. Line block after a woodcut, 1482.
  • 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.
  • M0006898: A man standing next to a covered body in an anatomists studio
  • A monument within which is suspended the flayed skin of a man, with a canal system as an allegory of the circulation of blood, and other allegories of anatomy. Engraving, 1651.
  • J.-L. Lagrange, Saluces and G. F. Cigna. Line engraving by Petit.
  • M0006703: Portrait of Sir Astley Cooper (1768-1841)
  • An anatomical dissection being carried out by Andreas Vesalius, attended by a large group of observers. Woodcut, 1543.