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  • Skeleton: seen from the front, diagram showing the outlines of the bones. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821.
  • Skeletons of a man and an ape(?). Line engraving by J. Cole, 17--?.
  • Skeleton of a horse: side view. Etching by J. Barlow, 1802.
  • Two anatomists dissecting a corpse, surrounded by birds, a cat, a dog and mice. Etching by S. Ireland after J. H. Mortimer, 17--.
  • A posterior view of a medical student wearing a surgical gown untidily tied up. Coloured pen drawing by E. Griset.
  • An écorché: seen from the back, with left arm extending to the side, and with muscles indicated in various colours. Coloured line engraving by H. Mutlow, 1808.
  • Six pictures of skeletons engaged in group games. Etching after W.F.E. Liardet.
  • Dr Fossil, an evolutionist, coming up against an interested couple's misguided views, at an anthropological society meeting. Wood engraving by W. Mackay, 1873.
  • Boer War: a British officer's pony looking at the bones of a Boer's pony killed by a shell. Halftone, c. 1900, after S. S. Lucas after a photograph by E. Blake Knox.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Skeleton of a man, with the skeleton of an elephant. Lithograph by B. Waterhouse Hawkins, 1860.
  • Christ resurrected on the day of judgement. Etching after M. de Vos.
  • Nath. Longbottom in St. Thomas's Street, Southwark, London sells skeletons of different sizes & both sexes, of good colour & accurately articulated; & packs them safe either for sea or land carriage : N.B. he also mounts for such gentlemen as have loose sets of bones : letters post-paid will be duly answered & orders punctually obeyed.
  • Skeleton: with left arm extended to the side, seen from behind, and with bones indicated in various colours. Coloured line engraving by H. Mutlow, 1808.
  • Dr Barclay's advocation to the proposed professorship of comparative anatomy supported and opposed: represented by him riding the skeleton of an elephant into the University of Edinburgh. Etching by J. Kay, 1817.
  • Skeleton of a man, riding the skeleton of a horse: three figures, including a comparison between the leg and foot bones of a man, and those of a horse. Lithograph by B. Waterhouse Hawkins, 1860.
  • Standing female figure, side view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes details of an arm and foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
  • 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.
  • The upper half of a skeleton without the skull. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Deformed human skeleton, front and back views. Line engraving ca. 1808.
  • Traité d'ostéologie, traduit de l'anglois de M. Monro, professeur d'anatomie, et de la Société Royale d'Edimbourg: où l'on a ajouté des planches en taille-douce, qui représentent au naturel tous les os de l'adulte et du foetus, avec leurs explications / Par M. Sue, professeur & démonstrateur d'anatomie aux Ecoles Royales de Chirurgie.
  • Death as a skeletal figure wielding a scythe: representing fears concerning the Vaccination Act 1898 which removed penalties for not vaccinating against smallpox. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1898.
  • A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Skeleton of a mature child. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • Shoulder joint, larynx, peritoneum (?) and a reclining écorché supported by the left elbow and the outstreched right hand, seen from the front. Line engraving by Kirkwood & Sons, partly after W. Cowper, 1813.
  • Rizpah keeps watch in the tranquil night over the decaying bodies of her sons. Mezzotint by R. Dunkarton and J.M.W. Turner, 1812, after the latter.
  • A surgeon treating a male patient's leg. Engraving.
  • Two leaden cists containing the remains of Gundrada, the daughter of William the Conqueror and her husband William de Warren. Chalk lithograph by F.W. Woledge after R.H. Nibbs, 1845.
  • MGG stained smear of a C2 vertebral chordomal mass
  • A male figure rises from the dead and ascends to heaven where a white cross appears. Etching.