Human skeleton
![Four scenes with a skeleton: the skeleton directing an astronomer-alchemist, poisoning the drink of lovers, contemplating a flagellant, and taking away a man. Drawings attributed to H.K. Browne [Phiz].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B11601115_0002.JP2/full/1338%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Five scenes with a skeleton. Drawings attributed to H.K. Browne [Phiz].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B11601127_0002.JP2/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
Works from the collections
168 works
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Java: human skeletons lying in a valley poisoned by volcanic gases, being watched by travellers. Coloured aquatint.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 726189i- Pictures
The figure of a man divided in two parts: a skeleton and a well-dressed gentleman. Engraving by V. Green, 1769, after himself.
Green, Valentine, 1739-1813.Date: 10 August 1769Reference: 26236i
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The bones of the hand (fig.1: palmar; fig. 2: dorsal) and the wrist (fig. 3: detail of carpal bones). Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.Date: 1739]Reference: 28382i- Pictures
A skeleton, seen from the back, bent forward with his hands clasped to his head. Woodcut, 1543.
Date: [1706]Reference: 26158i
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A group of dandified tailors attending a lecture, given by a grotesquely fashionable tailor, on "anatomical cutting". Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.Date: 1829Reference: 525732i