Historical illustration by Dutch printmaker David van der Kellen depicting an anatomy lesson. In a study, a scholar teaches anatomy to students. The teacher stands in front of the table, where his 4 students are sitting, and explains something about the skull he holds under his left hand. One of the students takes notes with a quill. Both the teacher and the pupils are dressed in seventeenth-century clothing. In the background is a bookcase and on the shelf on the wall are, among other things, a skull and a - 1882 A digitally optimised / enhanced version of an historical image

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