A corpse laid out on a table for observation in a hospital. Drawing by L. Beatrice Thompson, c. 1913, after an engraved title page, 1677.

Date:
1913
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25799i
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This copy was probably one of the enlargements from original works commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome for his Historical Medical Museum, for the exhibition organised in 1913 coinciding with the XVIIth International Congress of Medicine held in London

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1913

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1 drawing : pen and ink, over pencil ; image 47.6 x 48.2 cm

Lettering

L. Beatrice Thompson Signed on verso

References note

G. Wolf-Heidegger and A. M. Cetto, Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung, Basel and New York 1967, nos 175-176, pp. 252-53
H. S. Wellcome, Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum, London 1913, p. 54, no. 158

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Wellcome Collection 25799i

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