History of Medicine
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Tabulae Sceleti e Musculorum Corporis Humani
London, 1749. Copperplate engraving with etching. National Library of Medicine.
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
Wandelaar’s backgrounds are intended to be both beautiful and poetically evocative, a meditation on nature and mortality that complements the idealized figure of humanity.
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