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  • Five tombs containing skeletons of historical exemplars of wisdom, war, beauty, strength and riches; an allegory of change, decay and death. Engraving after A.P. van de Venne, ca. 1655.
  • A Roman academy of artists. Etching after Pier-Francesco Alberti, 16--.
  • A skeleton as a woman wearing a brown and red dress and a black headdress. Oil painting, ca. 1680.
  • A human skeleton, seen from the front, resting the bones of his lower left arm on a spade handle. Engraving by D. M. Bonaveri, ca. 1685/1690 after a woodcut, 1543.
  • The trunk of the skeleton: side view. Line engraving by A. Bell after J.-J. Sue, 1798.
  • A rachitic skeleton, measuring two feet two inches in length, seen from the front and the back. Engraving, 1749.
  • A human skeleton, leaning against a tomb: lateral view. Engraving by R. Benard, late 18th century, after A. Vesalius, 1543.
  • 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.
  • An apothecary wearing a gown and skull cap, pouring fluid from a bottle. Chalk drawing by or after H. Stacy Marks.
  • A skeleton as Death embraces a pregnant woman. Woodcut by Gerhard Marcks, 1959.
  • Cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • 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.
  • Five figures of exostoses (tumours) on the left femur (thigh-bone) Engraving, 1749.
  • A scholar in a surgeon's workroom with a jar of spirits containing Saint Michael defeating a dragon with a barbued tonge; representing the scholar's knowledge of chemistry enabling surgeons to heal, by setting the beneficent force of alkalis against the noxious force of acids. Etching by P.P. Bouche, ca. 1686.
  • A skeleton clutching a bottle labelled "Alcoholisme"; advertising an exhibition on alcohol abuse in the Hague, 1911. Lithograph, 1911, after F.M.
  • A sculpture of a human skeleton. Photograph, ca. 1929.
  • Victor Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831.
  • Johannes Vesling, seated below a swag of surgical instruments, indicates illustrations of the heart in a book displayed by a skeletal corpse. Engraving 1666.
  • 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].
  • Skulls and skeletons of friars arranged columns around the walls of a chapel. Photograph.
  • A false ankylosis of the right femur (thigh-bone), seen from the front and back (figs 1-2) and divided for an interior view (fig. 3) Engraving, 1749.
  • Skeleton, seen from behind, with left arm outstretched. Ink and watercolour, 1830/1835(?), after B.S. Albinus.
  • A human skeleton, seen from the front, resting the bones of his left forearm on a spade handle, after Vesalius. Engraving 1769, after Prevost, 1762, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • A Roman mosaic representing a skeleton reclining. Photograph by Edizione Alinari.
  • Two skeletons and one half-skeleton, half-female figure, with contours of the overlying body. Etching by J. García Hidalgo, ca. 1691.
  • An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.
  • [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].
  • A skeleton, contemplating a skull: lateral view. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • A provocative naked young woman lying on a bed, death (a cloaked skeleton) sits at her side, a naked man walks away from the bed with his head bowed, towards a throng of diseased and dying people; representing syphilis. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A skeleton standing in a landscape, reaching out to touch the pelvis of a standing lower limb of much greater size. Engraving by W. Cheselden, 1733.