Same skeleton for two genders, by Chodowiecki (1774)

Title

Description

This engraving represents several images of medical treatments and anatomy. On the top half, we can see a human skeleton and on the right and left, figures of a man and a woman. This could indicate that the same skeleton is represented for both genders.

Creator

Chodowiecki, Daniel (1726-1801)

Source

Anatomical figures (top); a physician takes the pulse of a sick man while the next two generations attend (bottom left); surgeons perform operations on a child and a woman. Etching by D. Berger, 1774, after D. Chodowiecki. Credit: Wellcome Library, London, UK
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sfu6aw9x

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200905155403if_/https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sfu6aw9x

Wellcome Library number: 652816i

Date

1774

Format

Etching, plate mark.
Dimensions: 18.5 × 23.6 cm