A male écorché seated, exposing his abdomen, with his bladder, rectum and anus on a ledge beside him. Woodcut by François Jollat, 1545, after Étienne de La Rivière and Charles Estienne.

Selected images from this work

The man is seated on an ancient and derelict stone seat, with his abdomen exposed. In the foreground a pool or stream

[Paris] : [Jacques Kerver], [1557/1575]

1 print : woodcut with letterpress, with watercolour and gold paint ; sheet 27.7 x 20.2 cm

H. Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, 2 ed., Hamden, Conn., 1962, pp. 38-40, no. II.-25, fol. C4a

Wellcome Collection 38851i

Bears a mark, foreground near centre, identified as Jollat's: a circle with diagonal lines

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