Flayed anatomical figure with raised arm, Tab. XXIII, from Drake's Anthropologia nova (1707)
An engraved plate showing a standing male figure with the skin removed, revealing musculature in full. The figure raises one arm and extends the other into a hilly landscape, with small figures on horseback and on foot in the lower left. The plate is labelled Tab. XXIII at the upper right and carries a small signature at the lower edge.
- Artist
- James Drake
- Date
- 1707
- Medium
- Source
- Wellcome Collection
- Size
- 2499 × 4000 px
Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1707.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection
![Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].](/t/c4f288.jpg)
