Anatomical figure: anterior view of a skeleton, with muscles modelled in wax. Etching by A. Cattani, 1781, after E. Lelli and G. Manzolini.

In Bologna (sotto il portico delle scuole) : Nella stamperia Cattani : Nerozzi, [1781]

1 print : etching ; platemark 179 x 51 cm

Secondo ordine de muscoli. ... Ant. Cattani fece 1781 Includes key to the organs in Italian

[Later state identified by Kornell, in which "grado" is replaced by "ordine" among other changes].

One of three large prints of the whole human figure by Antonio Cattani after Ercole Lelli, 1780-1781. Two of them show the écorché figures carved in wood (1734) which stand on either side of the professor's chair in the anatomy theatre of the Archiginnasio at Bologna: one print (1780) shows the front view, and the other (Wellcome Library no. 47217i: 1781) shows the back view. The present print (Wellcome Library no. 47218i) is the third one: it shows an actual skeleton with the muscles modelled in wax, created by Lelli with Giovanni Manzolini between 1742 and 1746 (Kornell, loc. cit.)

Monique Kornell, Flesh and bones: the art of anatomy, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2022, pp. 166-171, no. 38

Wellcome Collection 47218i