Four skeletons in motion. Lithograph, 18--.

  • Weber, Wilhelm Eduard, 1804-1891.
Date:
[not before 1836]
Reference:
570876i
  • Pictures
  • Online

Available online

view Four skeletons in motion. Lithograph, 18--.

Public Domain Mark

You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law. Read more about this licence.

Credit

Four skeletons in motion. Lithograph, 18--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Selected images from this work

View 1 image

About this work

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1836]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 6.6 x 10.6 cm

References note

Sander L. Gilman, Stand up straight! A history of posture, London: Reaktion Books, 2018, pp. 83-85

Reference

Wellcome Collection 570876i

Creator/production credits

Figures apparently devised by Wilhelm Weber and Eduard Weber and published in their book Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge: eine anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchung, Göttingen: In der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1836; here without the letters and numbers keyed to their text on pp. 33-34, para. 14, and pp. 39-42, para,. 18 (describing the changing positions of the left and right leg in the process of walking). The authors claim that their illustrations, made from measurements of fifteen soldiers, show that the pelvis is strongly tilted not only among women but among men, and that therefore the "best illustrations of the human skeleton are erroneous in this respect" (p. ix)

Reproduction note

After (or proof for): Wilhelm Weber and Eduard Weber, Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge: eine anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchung, Göttingen 1836, Taf. XIII, fig. 10

Type/Technique

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores

Permanent link