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Images about Skeleton

162 images from works
  • Skeleton: seen from the front. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821.
  • Bones: six figures, including skeleton seen from front and back, cross section and surface of a bone, and a hand and foot. Line engraving by Kirkwood & Sons, 1813.
  • A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • A surgeon treating an irate patient's wounded leg in his surgery assisted by two attendants. Engraving.
  • A classical courtyard filled with natural philosophers, scientists and artists. Engraving after S. Le Clerc.
  • A doctor holding death at bay from his patient: illustrated by him squirting a syringe at a skeletal figure entering via the window. Line engraving by N. Goodnight, 1787, after S. Collings.
  • A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; representing diphtheria. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • John Abernethy: certificate showing a skeleton and an écorché figure holding aloft a vignette of Galen finding a human skeleton. Sugar-ground etching by J. G. Strutt, before 1821.
  • A philosopher in his study, reading a book containing a print of a skeleton. Etching by J.A. von Prenner, 1728, after C. Paudiss.

Works from the collections

300 works

    • Pictures

    Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

    Bristow, Edmund, 1787-1876. | Date: 1 February 1828 | Reference: 16677i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Neurofibromatosis and Recklingshausen's disease

    | Date: 1901-1950 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.228
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
    • Books

    Tabula sceleti féminini juncta descriptione / [Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring].

    Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas von, 1755-1830. | Date: 1797
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Male skeleton seen from the front, with left arm extended: two figures (one an outline drawing). Line engraving, ca. 1850.

    | Date: [1850?] | Reference: 564509i
    • Videos

    Don't die young. Series 2, part 7, The bones, muscles & joints.

    | Date: 2008

Related topics

Bone and Bones
Human anatomy
Death
Anatomy
Skull
Paleopathology
Disease
Congenital, Hereditary and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
Developmental Disabilities
Costume

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