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    Image number: RS.10241
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    Human and monkey skeletons

    Date
    1721
    Creator
    T. Cole (British) , Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    29715
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 264mm
    width (print): 213mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Content object
    human body
    nature
       > animal
          > monkey
    Description
    Anatomical studies of a human skeleton and a monkey. Figure 1 “A Skeleton of a Man, whereby the Difference in the Osteology in the Man and other Creatures, may be observ’d.” Figure 2 The Skeleton of a Monkey, shewing the Difference between that and Mankind.”

    Plate 19 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature, by Richard Bradley (London, 1721). The figures are represented as being on a single piece of paper pinned to the darkened background of the plate. Inscribed “Plate XIX. T.Cole sculp.“

    Richard Bradley (1688-1732) English botanist and writer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712.
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