A human skeleton, seen from the back, bent forward with his hands clasped to his skull, after Vesalius. Engraving by Benard, 1779, after a woodcut, 1543.

[Geneva] : [Pellet], [1779]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 21.1 x 17.8 cm (trimmed)

Anatomie, le squelette vu par derrier. Benard direx. Bears plate no. : 3

J.B. de C.M. Saunders and C.D. O'Malley, The illustrations from the works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, Cleveland and New York 1950, p. 88, pl. 23

Wellcome Collection 36168i

Reverses the original woodcut published as the third skeleton plate to Andreas Vesalius De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, published in Basel in 1543. Instead of the brief indication of vegetation in the original a more extensive landscape is seen, with a tomb in the distance visible on the left