A skeleton, seen from the front, with labels giving the latin names of the bones. Photograph after a woodcut, 1501.

1900-1999

1 photograph ; image 32.2 x 23 cm

Anathomia ossium totius humani corporis...

L. Crummer, "Early anatomical fugitive sheets," Annals of Medical History, v, no. 3, 1923, p. 203

J. G. de Lint, "Fugitive anatomical sheets," Janus, xxviii, 1928, p. 80, fig. 1

L. Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. M. Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. 1945, p. 163

R. Herrlinger, History of medical illustration from antiquity to A. D. 1600, tr. G. Fulton Smith, Nijkerk 1970, p. 59, fig. 77

A. Carlino, "Knowe thyself'. Anatomical figures in early modern Europe," Res, 27, Spring 1995, p. 60, fig. 12

Wellcome Collection 26786i

This wooduct was first published in Paris in 1493 by Ricardus Helain and is usually considered the earliest known fugitive sheet. Helain's name and the date which appeared in a rectangle at the upper right is replaced by a scroll, crediting "Helandt" and giving the date of the impression as 1501. Another difference between the two editions is that in the later copy, the skeleton has only four toes on each foot