Skulls and skull fragments, showing different shapes of skulls and variations in sutures, after Eustachius. Etching by I. Basire, 1743, after an engraving, c. 1552.

[London] : [T. Osborne and J. Roberts], [1743]

1 print : etching ; 30.2 x 19.5 cm

I. Basire sculp. Bears plate no : IX

K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body. European traditions of anatomical illustration. Oxford 1992, pp. 188-203

Ludwig Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. Mortimer Frank, Chicago 1820, revd ed. New York 1945, pp. 200-204

Wellcome Collection 37244i

After engravings made by 1552 for the Italian anatomist, Bartholomeus Eustachius, but only first published in Rome in 1714 by Giovanni Maria Lancisi in the Tabulae anatomicae clarissimi viri Bartholomaei Eustachii quas è tenebris tandem vidicatas. This plate reverses plate 46 in Lancisi's edition. However, the simian-like skull that originally appeared at the top of the plate between figures I and III has been replaced in this print by a figure of the os petrosum, cut through to give a view (Roberts and Tomlinson 1992, pl. 50) of the concha and conchlea. This originally appeared as figure 2 on the same plate as Eustachius/Lancisi plate 45, a skeleton in lateral view