Anatomical diagram of the skull

Skull--anatomy & histology

Anatomy, Artistic

Book Illustrations

Copperplate engraving--Cf. Choulant, L. Anatomic illustration, p. 331.

Diagram of four human skulls, with frontal (fig. 1), lateral (fig 2.), ventral (fig. 3) and dorsal (fig. 4) views. Accompanying text identifies the bones and teeth of the skull.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Original image in: Del Medico, Giuseppe. Anatomia per uso dei pittori e scultori (Rome : Presso Vincenzo Poggioli, 1811). Lewis Z 112 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Published in 1811, Giuseppe del Medico's Anatomia per uso dei pittori e scultori is a manual of anatomy for artists. The work contains 38 copperplates, some of which were printed in multiple colors.

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

1811

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StillImage

Lewis_Z_112.pl3

1 print : copperplate engraving

35 x 23 cm