Engraved title page: a seated man beside a wooden frame, a hanging skeleton on a gibbet at right, and remains on the ground. Printed text reads London, 1740.

Title page of Cheselden's Anatomy of the Human Body, London 1740

An engraved title page vignette shows a seated man in period dress beside a wooden box-like frame, with a gibbet at right bearing a hanging skeleton and bones or remains on the ground. Below, printed text reads LONDON, Printed by William Bowyer, MDCCXL, with the engraver credit Ger: Vandergucht above.

Artist: William Cheselden
Date: 1740
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Source: Wellcome Collection
Size: 4000 × 3180 px

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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1740.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

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