Axial Commons Image Treasury
Engraved anatomical plate with a full standing skeleton in the center and smaller detailed drawings of bones arranged around it on a cream background.

Human skeleton and bones: ten figures. Engraving by T. Jefferys, ca. 1763.

An engraved plate shows a standing human skeleton in front view, with detailed separate drawings of skull parts, vertebrae, a rib-like section, a femur, and a jawbone arranged around it. Labeled figures are numbered in the margins on a cream paper ground with fine crosshatched shading.

Artist
Thomas Jefferys
Date
[1763?]
Medium
Engravings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
2457 × 4000 px
Download full size
Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1773.
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

Español: Esqueleto humano y huesos: diez figuras, grabado

Una lámina grabada muestra un esqueleto humano de pie, visto de frente, rodeado de dibujos detallados separados de partes del cráneo, vértebras, una sección de costilla, un fémur y una mandíbula. Las figuras numeradas aparecen en los márgenes sobre un papel crema con sombreado fino.

Português: Esqueleto humano e ossos: dez figuras, gravura

Uma lâmina gravada mostra um esqueleto humano em pé, visto de frente, cercado por desenhos detalhados e separados de partes do crânio, vértebras, uma seção de costela, um fêmur e uma mandíbula. As figuras numeradas aparecem nas margens sobre papel creme com sombreado fino.

More from Anatomy and Medicine

Engraved anatomy plate showing a man's head and neck in profile with facial, neck and shoulder muscles exposed. Plate label TAB.XI at upper left.The anatomy of the human body / By W. Cheselden.Engraved anatomy plate of a flayed male torso seen from behind, muscles finely hatched in black and white, labeled TAB. XII at upper left.The anatomy of the human body / By W. Cheselden.Engraving of a flayed male anatomical figure with one arm raised, standing before a landscape with horseback riders at lower left.Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a shoEtching of a bishop raising a host over a heap of plague victims and corpses, with classical columns and cherubs in clouds above.Saint Carlo Borromeo administering communion to plague victims. Etching by C. Carlone.Engraving of a monkey skeleton standing on a tree stump at left and a bear skeleton climbing a branch at right.Left, the skeleton of a monkey sitting on the stump of a tree. Right, the skeleton of a beHand-coloured etching of a drunken Bacchus on a globe with a blindfolded Justice, a rooster, quacks and musicians in a crowded street scene.A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians