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Etching of a muscled flayed figure and a skeleton holding up a small circular scene, framing a certificate with inscribed text.

John Abernethy: certificate showing a skeleton and an écorché figure holding aloft a vignette of Galen finding a human skeleton. Sugar-ground etching by J. G. Strutt, before 1821.

A printed certificate framed by a standing flayed figure on the left and a articulated skeleton on the right, both resting on stone plinths in a landscape. Both figures hold a small circular vignette showing a robed figure beside a skeleton, and handwritten-style inscribed text fills the centre.

Artist
Jacob George Strutt
Date
1821
Medium
Etchings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3616 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1821.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

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Español: Certificado de conferencias anatómicas con esqueleto y figura desollada, 1821

Un certificado impreso enmarcado por una figura desollada de pie a la izquierda y un esqueleto a la derecha, ambos sobre pedestales de piedra en un paisaje. Las dos figuras sostienen un pequeño medallón circular con una figura togada junto a un esqueleto, y el texto escrito ocupa el centro.

Português: Certificado de aulas de anatomia com esqueleto e figura esfolada, 1821

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