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Engraving of a man dissecting a corpse under a draped canopy, with a skeleton and diagrams on the wall and robed onlookers at left.

The anatomy of the human body, by W. Cheselden

An engraved scene shows a man in a long tunic leaning over a dissection table beneath a draped canopy, working on a corpse while a skeleton and geometric diagrams hang on the wall. On the left, a crowd of robed onlookers stands before a distant walled city.

Artist
William Cheselden
Date
1740
Medium
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
2597 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1740.
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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