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Engraved anatomical plate with numbered drawings of skeletal arms and hands, muscles shaded in dark tone, on pale paper.

Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body ... / Translated from the Latin.

An engraved anatomical plate showing human arms, hands and wrists drawn as bare skeletons with muscles shaded in dark tone, arranged in numbered figures across the page. Fine black linework on pale paper, with labels and a plate number in the upper corner, suggests an eighteenth-century medical table.

Artist
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
Date
1749
Medium
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
2905 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1749.
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

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