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Etching of two skeletons and a nude woman, half skin and half skeleton, standing side by side against a pale background with handwritten text above.

Two Skeletons and a Half-Skeleton Female Figure, Anatomical Etching

An etching shows two standing skeletons flanking a nude female figure whose right half is exposed as bone while the left half retains skin and musculature. Faint Spanish inscriptions run across the top of the plate, and the figures stand on a shaded ground line.

Artist
José García Hidalgo
Date
[1691?]
Medium
Etchings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3282 px
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