Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Dissection room].
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00740
Identifier
ark:/88435/3j333936q
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 6 x 9 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A26
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen drawings on wove paper
Depiction: Interior genre scene. Room with young man and old man, jars, human and animal skeletons.
Unsigned.
I don't think his is a 'Dissection room' ; rather it is a cabinet of curiosities of a collector or virtuoso with mummies and classical vases as well as skeletons and anatomical specimens, as in The Chamber of Taste in the Royal Collection <RCIN 81088> o.

Discovery Information

Subject
Scientists—Great Britain—18th century—In art
Human skeleton in art
Bones in art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7dfd51fe-a7a4-4326-a675-6d3ec37ee32f/manifest