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Title
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
Subject
Child
Bone and Boness--anatomy & histology
Skeleton
Book Illustrations
Description
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.
Creator
Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776
Shinevoet, Mr.
Source
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.
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1733
Language
eng
Type
StillImage
Identifier
Z_17.pl32a
Z_17.pl32b
Original Format
1 print : copperplate engraving
Physical Dimensions
39 x 23 cm
Citation
Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776 and Shinevoet, Mr., “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 College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2308.