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Engraved anatomy plate showing a large human skull in side profile with lettered labels, plus smaller inset drawings of a skull fragment and a bone.

Human skull, lateral view, from Drake's Anthropologia nova (1707)

An engraved plate from an early anatomy book shows a human skull in profile at large scale, labelled with letters and the caption Fig. I and Tab. XVIII. Smaller inset views show a skull fragment with teeth and a separate bone, all rendered in fine hatched line on a pale page.

Artist
James Drake
Date
1707
Medium
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 2670 px
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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)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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