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  • Johannes Vesling, seated below a swag of surgical instruments, indicates illustrations of the heart in a book displayed by a skeletal corpse. Engraving 1666.
  • Bodysnatchers in a church cemetery disturbed by the braying of an ass. Mezzotint, 1771.
  • The Parisian surgeon and anatomist A. Velpeau (1795-1867) performing an anatomical dissection. Etching, after F.N.A. Feyen-Perrin, 1864.
  • Two female figures standing on either side of drapery bearing the title of Vesling's Syntagma anatomicum: beyond, the anatomy theatre of the University of Padua. Engraving by Giovanni Georgi, 1647.
  • William Burke (centre), Dr Alexander Monro III (top left), William Robertson (top right), Thomas Beveridge (lower left), Dr Robert Knox (lower right) Silhouettes, c. 1830.
  • An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving of 1649 by Renier van Persyn after a design of 1626 by Crispijn de Passe the second.
  • M0011972: Portrait of Gabriele Falloppio, or Fallopius (1523-1562), Italian priest and anatomist
  • Post-mortem of a woman. Gouache painting, after a fifteenth-century manuscript illustration.
  • M0012263: Portrait of Nathaniel Highmore (1613-1685)
  • M0007626: Portrait of Richard Lower (1631-1691)
  • M0006977: Portrait possibly of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
  • M0011375: Portrait of a man thought to be William Hunter (1718-1783)
  • The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.
  • M0011375: Portrait of a man thought to be William Hunter (1718-1783)
  • M0012263: Portrait of Nathaniel Highmore (1613-1685)
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • M0011972: Portrait of Gabriele Falloppio, or Fallopius (1523-1562), Italian priest and anatomist
  • William Pitt the younger and his ministers as anatomists dissecting the body of the Prince of Wales; representing Pitt's reduction of the powers of the regent. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1788/1789.
  • Michelangelo drawing from an anatomized cadaver. Photogravure after M. J. A. Mercié.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1906, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • A boy requesting an anatomist to mend his broken jug. Coloured lithograph.
  • An anatomical dissection in the ancient world, in a landscape setting. Engraving, 1801.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • M0011375: Portrait of a man thought to be William Hunter (1718-1783)
  • The Dutch anatomist Steven Blankaart (1650-1704) performing a dissection in an anatomy theatre, with seven observers. Engraving, 1687.
  • M0010056: Portrait of Charles Barrett Lockwood (1856-1914)
  • M0009081: Portrait of Giambattista Canano (1515-1579)
  • Michelangelo drawing from an anatomized cadaver. Photogravure after M. J. A. Mercié.
  • M0007626: Portrait of Richard Lower (1631-1691)
  • Two anatomists dissecting a corpse, surrounded by birds, a cat, a dog and mice. Etching by S. Ireland after J. H. Mortimer, 17--.