Framed Plate No.11; Anatomical Studies of Bones & Muscles, for the use of Artists; Flaxman/Landseer c.1833 sub-Antiques An ornate iron stand

An ornate iron stand

as Patrick Süskind so famously wrote

and printmaker Antonio Pollaiuolo 
(1432–1498) was probably the first to skin human bodies in order to investigate the muscles and understand the nude form

including the Palais Garnier

Edward Bland

Framed Plate No.11; Anatomical Studies of Bones & Muscles, for the use of Artists; Flaxman/Landseer c.1833 sub-Antiques An ornate iron standOrigin: English Period: Early 19th Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1833 Height: 13. 5 inches (in frame) Width: 20. 5 inches (in frame) London. M. A. Nattali. Folio. In landscape form, the framed and glazed single engraved plate leaf, numbered Pl. 11, taken from Anatomical Studies of the Bones and Muscles, for the use of Artists, the drawing by the late John Flaxman, Esq. R. A. Engraved by Henry Landseer depicts the various muscles of the abdomen