Scissors cutting the lower jaw of a human head. Etching by Michael Esson, 1994.

  • Esson, Michael, 1950-
Date:
1994
Reference:
27333i
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Description

The composition is connected with a wax anatomical model of the head and neck made by Joseph Towne for the Great Exhibition of 1851, which passed to the Gordon Museum, Guy's Hospital Medical School: see Arnold and Kemp, op. cit. p. 47, no. III.3

Publication/Creation

1994

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 35.2 x 29.8 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Towne head 10/20 Michael Esson

Edition

Edition of 20.

References note

Christopher Allen, Michael Esson: royal surgeons - trophies, Dulwich Hill, New South Wales [printed], 1995, reproduced
Ken Arnold and Martin Kemp, Materia medica: a new cabinet of medicine and art, London 1995, p. 47, no. III.7

Reference

Wellcome Collection 27333i

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