The body of a standing man with his trunk dissected to reveal the ribs and viscera. Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1869.

  • Sibson, F. (Francis), 1814-1876.
Date:
[1869]
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642246i
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Description

"A robust, well-built man, aged 37, and upwards of six feet high, who died of cholera ... [in] the Marylebone Infirmary"--Sibson, op. cit.

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

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

Lettering

Drawn from the subject & on stone by William Fairland Bears number: Pl. I

Creator/production credits

"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

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Wellcome Collection 642246i

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