This is a sketch of a fetus skeleton in the 17th century. The sketch would have been done at the time of the autopsy in order to act as education for other anaomists.
Part of a series of drawings done depicting anatomy of the human body at the time. These drawings were done based on Indian and early modern sources. The skeletons are leaning on either a scythe (depicted here) or a pedestal alluding to Vesalian…