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The image shows two figures, a young woman naked and holding an apple and a young man whose body is decomposing and part of his skeleton is showing. His body is partly covered by a tree and a snake bites the man's arm. The trio represent Adam, Eve…

This illustration represents a newborn child. The description in Latin reads "Ossium et cartilaginum pueri recenter nati constructio", indicating that the child is male. The gender of the newborn is marked by the allusion of the bow to cupid.

This illustration represents two newborn children. The description in Latin reads "Ossa et cartilagines embryonis proponuntur fig. 1. Embryonis quadraginta durorum dierum fig. II. Embryonis circiter trimestris, sceleton.”. The Latin description…

Original title: Slapend kind met zandloper en vier schedels ("Sleeping child with hourglass and four skulls").

The engraving represents a naked baby boy sleeping with his hands on his chest on the top left corner. Next to him, an hourglass. on the…

A nude woman is being held by a skeleton with hair and wings. The skeleton is holding the woman by her hands. Gender perspective: The angel of Death may be interpreted as a male since it is taller than the woman and its left arm is noticeably…

"For disobeying God’s orders and eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam and Eve received the punishment of mortality, hard work, and pain. A skeleton, an obvious symbol of death, forms the trunk of the fatal tree, and…

This image represents three young nude women forming a circle, and a skeleton staring at one of the women. The woman in the center is placing her right foot on a skull, that does not present any sex or gender traits.

Gender perspective: This…

This image represents a woman, a man and a skeleton in a room. The men appears on the floor and the woman on the bed. It is thus a joint death of a man and a woman. The man seems to have tried to defend himself with a sword, whereas the woman seems…

This image is an engraving of the first illustration of a female skeleton, after J. J. Sue (1710-1792).

Original title: Dood naast een klein meisje ("Death next to a little girl")."Death dancing next to a girl. In the left foreground you can see the girl's grave with the date on which the drawing was made or on which the girl died. On the right is a…