Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Figures practising the fine arts and drawing from a suspended skeleton and corpse. Engraving by C. Cort, 1578, after J. van der Straet.
Figures practising the fine arts and drawing from a suspended skeleton and corpse. Engraving by C. Cort, 1578, after J. van der Straet.
Wellcome Collection

Figures practising the fine arts and drawing from a suspended skeleton and corpse. Engraving by C. Cort, 1578, after J. van der Straet.

Jan van der Straet · 1578

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Pictura fusoria staturia sculptura architectura typorum eneorium incisoria anatomia tyrones pictura Illmo et Exmo duo Iacoco Boncompagno arcis praefecto ingenioij ac industrie fautori artiu<m> nobiliu<m> praxim a lo Stradesi belga artificiose expressa Laure<n>ti Vaccarius D.D. Romae anno 15<78>

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