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  • Four diagrams illustrating cross-sections of the male reproductive organs. Etching by E. Mitchell.
  • Arterial nodules, horse
  • Surgical operations on the foot, ankle and knee: six figures. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
  • Adult horse (equine) brain, sagittal section
  • Canine brain affected by cerebral haemorrhage
  • Cross-sections through the knee. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
  • The interior of a dissecting room: five students and/or teachers dissect a cadaver. Photograph, ca. 1900 (?).
  • Kidneys showing bilateral atrophy (tissue wasting)
  • An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.
  • Putti perform an anatomical dissection on a dog; others hold a jar containing a human foetus; two more play with a spider; representing anatomy and natural history. Etching by B. Picart, 1729.
  • Plate XLIX. Dissection of the leg, ankle, and foot.
  • La dissection des parties du corps humain : avec les figures & declaratiõ des incisions, composées par Estienne de la Riuiere. Imprimé à Paris, chez Simon de Colines, 1546.
  • Cross-sections through the human face and jaw. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
  • La dissection des parties du corps humain : avec les figures & declaratiõ des incisions, composées par Estienne de la Riuiere. Imprimé à Paris, chez Simon de Colines, 1546.
  • Leiden, the Netherlands: the University, Anatomy theatre, Botanic garden, Lakenhal, city and two portraits of Counts. Line engraving.
  • Metastatic neoplasia of omentum tissue, canine
  • Plate XLII. Surgical dissection of the male perineum.
  • Plate XVI. Dissection of the neck
  • Anatomy Theatre, Leiden, the Netherlands. Line engraving.
  • A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay. Engraving by N-G. Dupuis, 1759, after J-B-M. Pierre.
  • Cross-sections through a leg and removal of a hip joint. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
  • The anatomical instructor; or, an illustration of the modern and most approved methods of preparing and preserving the different parts of the human body, and of quadrupeds. By injection, corrosion, maceration, distention, articulation, modelling, &c., with a variety of copper-plates / by Thomas Pole.
  • Old St. Thomas's Hospital: a cadaver, a skull, bones of the lower leg and foot, and two bell-jars on stands. Engraving by A. R. Freebairn after a medallion by W. Wyon, 1829.
  • An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.
  • Nine cross-sections through the male reproductive organs, urinary system and anus. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.