stilllifequickheart:

A. L. Wirsing

Orange Duc Thol

1767

victoriasrustyknickers:

Octopus from Conradi Gesneri’s Historiae Animalium - published in 1551

grumble-grumble:

Deer and Rattlesnake - Harper’s New Monthly Magazine - 1855 by Thomas Shahan 3 on Flickr.

studyofman:

Engravings, explaining the anatomy of the bones. Bell, John, 1763-1820. London, 1794.

“Abdominal muscles, testis, superficial dissection, in situ. Male cadaver dissected to show rectus abdominis, testis dissected free from the scrotum. Anterior view.”

From Rowlandson’s Dance of Death series.