Diseases of the Stomach (cancer)

Diseases of the Stomach (cancer) lithograph printed by Benard and Frey after Antoine Touissant de Chazal (French, 1793-1854). From Jean Cruveilhier, Anatomie pathologique du corps humain (Paris: J. B. Baillière, 1829-1842), vol. 2, part 27, pl. 1. Huntington Library, Art Museum and Gardens, San Marino, California, RB 632011. – By the nineteenth century, publishing technology […]
The Reward of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty)

The Reward of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty), etching and engraving by William Hogarth (English, 1697–1764),February 1, 1751, plate: 15 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (38.8 x 32 cm)sheet: 15 3/4 x 13 1/16 in. (40 x 33.2 cm) Metropolitan Museum, New York, Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891, no. 91.1.139. – This scene, incorporating […]
John Banister Delivering an Anatomical Lecture on the Viscera

John Banister Delivering an Anatomical Lecture on the Viscera 1581, painting, University of Glasgow Library, Glasgow, GB 247 MS Hunter 364 (V.1.1), frontispiece, 33.8 x 43.2 cm.University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections, MS Hunter 364. – The English surgeon and physician John Banister (1532/3–1599?) lectures on the viscera, placing his hand on the open abdomen […]
Abdominal Dissection

Abdominal Dissection woodcut after Jan Steven van Calcar (North Netherlandish, ca. 1515– ca. 1546). From Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (Basel: J. Oporinus, 1543), bk. 5, p. 360 [460], fig. 6. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 84-B27611 – Ribs have been broken and the skin peeled back to display the liver, stomach, […]
The Martyrdom of St Erasmus

The Martyrdom of St Erasmus about 1430–1440, by Master of Sir John Fastolf (French, active before about 1420 – about 1450). Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink, Leaf: 12.1 × 9.2 cm (4 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 5 (84.ML.723), fol. 38v – This scene of the martyrdom […]