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Caricature of a dissection, Samuel Ireland, 1780-90
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Caricature of a dissection, Samuel Ireland, 1780-90

Samuel Ireland

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Caricature of a dissection, after pen-drawing by J.H. Mortimer, in Fry coll., Yale. The spade may be a reference to body snatching.

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