Human skeleton and bones: ten figures, engraving
An engraved plate shows a standing human skeleton in front view, with detailed separate drawings of skull parts, vertebrae, a rib-like section, a femur, and a jawbone arranged around it. Labeled figures are numbered in the margins on a cream paper ground with fine crosshatched shading.
- Artist
- Thomas Jefferys
- Date
- [1763?]
- Medium
- Engravings
- Source
- Wellcome Collection
- Size
- 2457 × 4000 px
Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1773.
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/7b6e62.jpg)
