An anatomical dissection in the ancient world, in a landscape setting. Engraving, 1801.

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1801
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25944i
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An anatomical dissection in the ancient world, in a landscape setting. Engraving, 1801. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A dissector reveals the intestines of a cadaver, laid out across a rock, while his companion reads from a text. To the left, a young man in a group of three standing figures holds a heart (although the cadaver's chest has not yet been opened) The foreground is littered with skeleton parts

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Venetiis [Venice] : Ex calcographia Josephi Picotti, 1801.

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1 print : engraving ; image 55.7 x 40.3 cm

References note

L. Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. M. Frank, Chicago 1920, revd. ed. 1945 (rep. New York 1962), p. 328
G. Wolf-Heidegger and A. M. Cetto, Die Anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung, Basel and New York 1967, no. 237, p. 292
A. Hahn, P. Dumaitre and J. Saimon-Contet, Histoire de la médecine et du livre médical, Paris 1962, pp. 331; 337, fig. 218

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Wellcome Collection 25944i

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