“Nun walks with fish in hand chasing a cat. She wants to trade the fish with a penis that the cat has in its mouth. A jester watches through a window frame” - Rijkmuseum.

Flemish engraving from 1555 - "Flaisch macht Flaisch” (flesh gives flesh”).

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Detail from a popster for the Dresden International Hygiene Exhibition by Franz von Stuck - 1911.

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Internal Organs of the Human Body from The Household Physician, 1905.

Interior of a sheep from The Household Physician, 1905.

Muscled skeleton, facing front with Rhinoceros.

From Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani Bernhard Siegfried Albinus - by Lugduni Batavorum, Prostant apud Joannem & Hermannum Verbeek, 1747. Wellcome.

Poster, designed by Franz von Stuck (1863-1928), advertising the Dresden International Hygiene Exhibition (1911) - Wellcome Collection

Jindřich Štyrský - "The Hand" - 1940. Drawing on tracing paper. At the National Gallery of Prague:

"The Hand is a complexly composed work that combines the automatic technique of frotage with classic drawing, modern photographic reproduction and alchemical illustration. Štyrský used collage to add a child’s and a male hand to the woman’s hand that is adorned with a sparkling ring. The child’s red hand, cut out from a reproduced photograph holds a ball – an attribute of a game that was one of the main themes of Štyrský’s oeuvre. Furthermore, the sphere symbolizes the world. The male hand, pasted to the back of the female hand, is the only one whose palm is turned towards the viewer. It bears an esoteric message: this is the Hand of the Philosophers with seven signs, depicted in Die Hand der Philosophen by Johann Isaac Hollandus (1667). Another symbol, appearing on the palm, is the Eye of Providence enclosed in a riangle, with rays emanating from it."

Ultrameuble by Kurt Seligmann - unknown photographer- 1938

Kurt Seligmann’s ‘L’ultra-meuble’ is a stool made of four realistic human legs wearing high-heeled shoes joined above the bent knees to form a stool – a combined piece of furniture and objet fabriqué exhibited in the Paris Surrealist Exhibition in 1938.

Study of a hand with a needle between thumb and index finger, Henricus Wilhelmus Couwenberg, after Jeremias Gottlob Rugendas, 1830 - 1845

Skeleton of a hand, Jan l'Admiral - c.18th Century

Compendium of Demonology and Magic, 1775 - (Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere, 1775.)

Compendium of Demonology and Magic, 1775  (Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere, 1775.)

David Loggan  (1634–1692) - Anatomy of the Brain - The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis.

Study of Hands by Eleanor de Morgan (30 August 1855 – 2 May 1919).

The head of a man composed of writhing nude figures. Crayon drawing by Hans Mischlenski (?) - published 1929, after F. Balbi. Wellcome Collection.

Anatomical Illustration Illustration of human viscera. By Paulo Mascagni. 'exploded thorax' 

Paolo Mascagni (1755 -1815) was Prosector of Anatomy at the University of Siena, which meant he was responsible for leading dissection for demonstration and research. His 'Anatomia Universa' was a comprehensive work of anatomy with forty-four hand coloured plates.

The main figure here is surrounded by smaller studies. At the top of the plate, the hearts have had the 'epicardium', the outer layer of heart tissue, removed to reveal the cardiac muscle. The heart at the bottom left is viewed from above to reveal the aortic valve. The smaller figures are foetal dissections revealing the umbilical artery and vein.

Interior of the heart, lungs, liver and stomach from The Household Physician, 1905.

Surgical-Anatomical Tables by Anton Nuhn, 1846 From the anatomical literature and drawings collection at Heidelberg University—HeidICON.

Surgical-Anatomical Tables by Anton Nuhn, 1846 From the anatomical literature and drawings collection at Heidelberg University--HeidICON.

Ernst Haeckel's Evolution of Man -  Animal embryos - 1910.

Illustration of a horse showing different body parts.

'Markhams Maisterpeece. Conteyning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech ... Gervase Markham. Imprint London N. & J. Okes, 1636.'

Interior of a dog from The Household Physician, 1905.

Interior of a cow from The Household Physician, 1905.

From the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, published in Russia,1890-1907.

J. F. Gautier D'Agoty - Anatomie de la tete (Wellcome Institute).

Dissection of the brain showing blood-vessels; after dissections by J.F. Duverney and Pierre Tarin, 1746-48