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Some images from Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones by William Cheseldon, published in 1733.
Title: Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones
City: London
Date: 1733
Total items: 3
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Deer Skeleton from 18th century engraving]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cheselden-Osteographia/wm/big/008-zombie-deer-q75-150x200.jpg "[picture: Deer Skeleton from 18th century engraving]")
Deer Skeleton from 18th century engraving
This drawing shows the reassembled skeleton of a deer as if it were walking. There are antlers, but no text on the page to identify the species. [more...]
[$]![[picture: Title Page, Osteographia]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cheselden-Osteographia/wm/big/000-title-page-q81-125x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page, Osteographia]")
The title page includes an engracing of three gentlemen discussing and examining a skeleton, I think human, with just the rib cage, neck, skull, remaining, suspended upside=down from a wooden tripod. They are standing on teh edge of a forest; on the left, I think an artist is using an elaborate wooden screen from the sun and wind to help him make a [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: Skeleton sitting on a tree stump and waving, from 18th century engraving]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cheselden-Osteographia/wm/big/012-skeletal-person-on-tree-stump-q75-116x200.jpg "[picture: Skeleton sitting on a tree stump and waving, from 18th century engraving]")
Skeleton sitting on a tree stump and waving, from 18th century engraving
This engraving is actually labeled monkey (in penci, by hand) in the book. Indeed the skull and the shape of the feet especially suggests that. It sits on the sawn-off stump of a [...] [more...]
[$]Some images from Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones by William Cheseldon, published in 1733.
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