The Anatomist

Thomas Rowlandson British
Publisher Thomas Tegg British

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An elderly surgeon leans over a bag of instruments on a table and holds a knife in his right hand. A girl seizes him by the arm and points behind her to his subject, a young man lying who has just awoken, throwing a sheet off and looking horrified. A notice is on the wall behind them, which reads, "A Course of Anatomical Lectures accompanied with Dissections will be delivered tommorrow Even[ing] by Professer Sawbone."

The Anatomist, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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