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  • Standing male figure, rear view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes a detail of a foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
  • Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.
  • Standing male figure, front view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes a detail of a foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
  • A chart of farm animals consisting of quadrupeds (horse, donkey, pig, dog, cow and sheep) and birds (hens, geese and ducks). Process print.
  • Traité d'ostéologie, traduit de l'anglois de M. Monro, professeur d'anatomie, et de la Société Royale d'Edimbourg: où l'on a ajouté des planches en taille-douce, qui représentent au naturel tous les os de l'adulte et du foetus, avec leurs explications / Par M. Sue, professeur & démonstrateur d'anatomie aux Ecoles Royales de Chirurgie.
  • A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
  • Traité d'ostéologie, traduit de l'anglois de M. Monro, professeur d'anatomie, et de la Société Royale d'Edimbourg: où l'on a ajouté des planches en taille-douce, qui représentent au naturel tous les os de l'adulte et du foetus, avec leurs explications / Par M. Sue, professeur & démonstrateur d'anatomie aux Ecoles Royales de Chirurgie.
  • Traité d'ostéologie, traduit de l'anglois de M. Monro, professeur d'anatomie, et de la Société Royale d'Edimbourg: où l'on a ajouté des planches en taille-douce, qui représentent au naturel tous les os de l'adulte et du foetus, avec leurs explications / Par M. Sue, professeur & démonstrateur d'anatomie aux Ecoles Royales de Chirurgie.
  • Skeleton of a man holding a shepherd's crook, standing beside the skeletons of a ram and a cow. Lithograph by B. Waterhouse Hawkins, 1860.
  • A woman representing knowledge examining a sick child. Lithograph by G. Tyr after A.J.V. Orsel.
  • Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR), x-ray analysis
  • A skeleton holding up a sign bearing the warning 'AIDS: the death warrant!" against a black background; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Central Health Education Bureau in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, ca. 199-.
  • Trephination, preparation of medicines from raw materials, a skeleton, a muscleman and a portrait of A. Paré. Line engraving.
  • Sternum and right side of rib cage, seen from behind. Watercolour by G.E. Blenkins after a design engraved by A. Bell, 1831.
  • A philosopher in his study, reading a book containing a print of a skeleton. Etching by J.A. von Prenner, 1728, after C. Paudiss.
  • The graves open on the day of judgement; Christ, apostles and female saints look on. Engraving after M. Heemskerck, 1564.
  • Skeleton: side view, diagram showing the outlines of the bones. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821.
  • Anatomical figures on a cliff by the sea, their heads illuminated by light. Line engraving and etching by B. Probst, 1735.
  • Elisha's skeleton exerts a magical power when a dead soldier who has fallen into his grave is brought back to life. Etching by M. Tyroff, c. 1735.
  • Skeleton: seen from the front, diagram showing the outlines of the bones. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821.
  • Nath. Longbottom in St. Thomas's Street, Southwark, London sells skeletons of different sizes & both sexes, of good colour & accurately articulated; & packs them safe either for sea or land carriage : N.B. he also mounts for such gentlemen as have loose sets of bones : letters post-paid will be duly answered & orders punctually obeyed.
  • Skeletons acting out phrases in James Thomson's "The seasons": fourteen scenes. Etching by H. J. Pidding, 1822.
  • A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria") being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • Two partially skeleton couples embrace representing the risk of death from AIDS; the winning poster by Mirjam Kongi from a competition entited 'Teenagers and Health' organised by the Estonian "Anti-AIDS" Association. Colour lithograph, ca.
  • The word 'AIDS', in front of which a naked, weeping woman embraces a skeleton. Colour lithograph.
  • Skeletons of a man, an ape and a bear: three figures. Lithograph by B. Waterhouse Hawkins, 1860.
  • Standing male figure, side view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes details of an arm and foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
  • A skeleton (death) wrestling with a man, the skeleton seems to be winning. Engraving by R. Livesay after W. Hogarth.
  • A winged figure of Death stands in front of a recumbent skeleton and tears out the pages of a book while a crowd of people watch him. Engraving by M. Dente (Marco da Ravenna), 152-, after Rosso Fiorentino and/or B. Bandinelli.
  • A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.