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A Flayed Man Holding his Own Skin
During the age where dissection of criminals was becoming legalized many books such as "A Description of the Body of Man" in which this piece was realized were surfacing.
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, the principle docter on the right, is painted to be explaining the anatomy of the hand. The musculature of the arm is illustrated by medical students are all gathered around the cadaver, with full focus on the professor.
The Agnew Clinic
The painting was commissioned by a few undergraduate students in the Unversity of Pennsylvania to honor anatomist and surgeon David Hayes Agnew on his retirement from teaching.The painting depicts Dr. Agnew performing surgery medical amphitheater…
Three heads showing phrenological traits associated with insanity: a mentally defective person, a mad woman, and the murderer P.F. Lacenaire
The image shows three examples of phrenologic traits associated with insanity. On the left is a mentally defective person, and in the middle is a mad woman. The final sketching is of French murderer P.F. Lacenaire.
Plaster head representing executed French criminal Lacenaire
According to the London Science Museum, "Pierre Francois Lacenaire (1800-36) was a notorious French killer. He was executed by guillotine in March 1836. A plaster copy was made of his head after his death. This was collected by Dr Gachet (1828-1909),…
Brain Anatomy
A picture from surgical anatomy text from the 18th century.
The interior of a dissecting-room
Picture of the inside of a dissecting room depicting the chaos of multiple people crammed into one room conducting multiple dissections
Muscles of the neck, tongue and jaws
The image portrays in detail the muscles of the neck, tongue, jaw. The dissections were prepared by Jacques-Fran̨cois Duverney, a Parisian surgeon and demonstrator of anatomy and surgery at the Jardin du Roy.
Three portraits shown for their phrenological exemplarity: Gall, Eustache and Chauffron.
Phrenological chart of Gall, Eustache, and Chauffron. Gall was a German anatomist and physiologist who created phrenology. According to the Wellcome Library, Eustache was a "a slave from the Dominican republic who came to be awarded a 'prize for…
Wax model of a female, half skeletal
This lady is dressed in Regency clothing typical of the first half of the 1800s. She is skilfully created out of wax. She is half woman, half skeleton. The statue may have been made for one of three reasons: a darkly comic novelty, a ‘memento mori’…