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Illustrations of dissections in a series of original coloured plates, the size of life, representing the dissection of the human body...

London, 1867. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.

George Viner Ellis
(1812-1900)
[anatomist]

George Henry Ford
(1809-1876)
[artist]

Subdued color and shading, and masterful composition, lend the dissected body and prosthetics of dissection a serene beauty.

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