The skull: anterior view (above) and lateral view (below). Line engraving by A. Bell after J.-J. Sue, 1798.

  • Sue, M. (Jean Joseph), 1710-1792.
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[1798]
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689074i
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The skull: anterior view (above) and lateral view (below). Line engraving by A. Bell after J.-J. Sue, 1798. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Edinburgh] : [A. Bell], [1798]

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1 print : engraving ; platemark 36.4 x 21.7 cm

Lettering

Tab. L. Part 3 Pl. 91. A. Bell prin. Wal. sculptor fecit.

References note

Londa Schiebinger, 'Skeletons in the closet: the first illustrations of the female skeleton in eighteenthcentury anatomy', in: C. Gallagher and T. Laqueur (edd.), The making of the modern body: sexuality and society in the nineteenth century, Berkeley 1987, pp. 42-82

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Wellcome Collection 689074i

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According to Schiebinger, the designs of the plates in the Traité d'ostéologie may be the work of Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville

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