The body of a man lying down with the trunk dissected: two figures showing the lungs after breathing out (above) and after breathing in (below, simulated by inflating the lungs). Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1869.

[London] : [John Churchill], [1869] ([London] : Hullmandel and Walton)

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; sheet approximately 53.5 x 36.3 cm

From nature and on stone by William Fairland Bears number: Pl. XVII

"This [the first plate in this series] and all the following plates were taken from dissections made by myself. I took the outlines of the organs by the aid of a transparent tracing frame , suggested to me by Dr [Thomas] Hodgkin ... Those outlines formed the groundwork for the coloured drawings from the body, which, as well as the lithographs, were executed with untiring care by Mr Fairland, under my close supervision. The lithographs have been carefully coloured, from the original drawings, by Mr Sherwin."--F. Sibson, explanation of plate I

Wellcome Collection 642390i