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Sepia lithograph of a human skeleton kneeling on a seated stag skeleton holding its antlers, with an antelope skeleton standing at left.

Skeletons of a man, a seated stag and an antelope, comparative anatomy lithograph

A sepia lithograph shows a human skeleton kneeling on the back of a seated deer skeleton, gripping its antlers, while a standing antelope skeleton stands at left. The figures are rendered in fine hatched lines against a pale tan ground, with the plate number visible in the top right corner.

Artist
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Date
[1860]
Medium
Lithographs
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 2982 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1860.
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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