The sceleton of a child a year and a half old, with the os humeri of a man in the left hand, to shew by comparison the size of the child

The skeleton of a child a year and a half old, with the os humeri of a man in the left hand, to show by comparison the size of the child

Child

Bone and Boness--anatomy & histology

Skeleton

Book Illustrations

Engraved by Gerard van der Gucht and Mr. Shinevoet.

Anatomical diagram of a skeletal figure of a child, aged 1.5 years, holding the humerus of an adult in the left hand.

The image is printed a second time without the labels and humerus.

Title from caption on previous page.

Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776

Shinevoet, Mr.

Original image in: Cheselden, William, 1688-1752. Osteographia, or The anatomy of the bones (London, 1733). Z 17 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Osteographia, William Cheselden's work on human and animal bones, was first published in London in 1733. The book's elegant and sometimes playful illustrations were created with the use of a camera obscura and engraved by Gerard van der Gucht and Mr. Shinevoet.

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

1733

eng

StillImage

Z_17.pl32a

Z_17.pl32b

1 print : copperplate engraving

39 x 23 cm