Bones of the skull: eight figures. Line engraving by A. Bell, 1798, after J.-J. Sue.

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

1 print : engraving ; platemark 34.7 x 23.9 cm

Tab. LIII. Part 3. Pl. 94. A. Bell Prin. Wal. sculptor fecit

Londa Schiebinger, 'Skeletons in the closet: the first illustrations of the female skeleton in eighteenth‐century 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 (this print pp. 58-59, p. 77 n. 53, p. 78 n. 59)

Wellcome Collection 561541i

According to Schiebinger, the design may be the work of Marie‐Geneviève‐Charlotte Thiroux d’Arconville