Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum · 1747
The Ideal Figure
The Enlightenment asked for the perfect body, drawn perfectly. Albinus and Cheselden answered with figures posed like antique gods — and set them against rhinoceroses, ruins, and poetry.
The plates in The Ideal Figure
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, engr. Jan Wandelaar · 1747
The Skeleton and the Rhinoceros
An anatomy plate with a rhinoceros in the background.
Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum · 1747
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, engr. Jan Wandelaar · 1747
The Ideal Figure
Human anatomy as classical sculpture.
Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum · 1747
William Cheselden · 1733
A Skeleton, from the Osteographia
Bones drawn with the aid of the camera obscura.
Osteographia · 1733