A skeleton, back view, standing with left arm extended

Dateca. 1740

After work by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus 1697 - 1770

Engraver Jan Wandelaar 1690 - 1759

OriginEurope, Netherlands, Amsterdam and Leiden

MediumEtching and line engraving on laid paper

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1984-37,2

DescriptionUpper margin reads: "B.S. ALBINI/ TABULA II." J. Wandelaar ad ipsum seceletum delinearit et incidit./ Prostat Leidae Batavorum apud J. et et H. Verbeek, Biblioop. 1740."Label TextThis plate comes from "Tabular Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani" originally published in 1747 by the famous German anatomist Bernhard Seigfried Albinus.ProvenanceBefore 1984, Nathan Benn (Washington, D.C.); 1984-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).