barefootliamFeb 21, 2023

A 1733 anatomical drawingengraving from Cheselden’s “Osteograpia” - a reassembled primate skeleton.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cheselden-Osteographia/pages/012-skeletal-person-on-tree-stump/

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Skeleton sitting on a tree stump and waving, from 18th century engraving

This engraving is actually labeled monkey (in penci, by hand) in the book. Indeed the skull and the shape of the feet especially suggests that. It sits on the sawn-off stump of a large tree, a