Vertebral column: two figures showing front and side views. Line engraving by A. Bell after J.-J. Sue, 1798.

[Edinburgh] : [A. Bell], [1798]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 36.7 x 22.5 cm

Tab. LVIII. Part 3. Pl. 99. A. Bell, Prin. Wal. sculptor fecit Individual vertebrae indicated with letters

According to Schiebinger, the designs of the plates in the Traité d'ostéologie may be the work of Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville

Londa Schiebinger, 'Skeletons in the closet: the first illustrations of the female skeleton in eighteenth‐century anatomy', in: C. Gallagher and T. Laqueur (edd.), The making of the modern body: sexuality and society in the nineteenth century, Berkeley 1987, pp. 42-82

Wellcome Collection 561546i