Studio Vesalius

Credits

Image credits.

The engravings and drawings on this site come from public collections. Each has been cropped, traced into outline and recoloured for this site. None has been endorsed by its source or by the people named here.

Licensed under Creative Commons

These works are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). They have been changed: cropped, traced into outline and recoloured.

  • The initial letter V, from Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica (Basel, 1555). Wellcome Collection, image L0005696. Used as the studio's mark.
  • Adult human teeth (the full set, a molar and a canine), engraving by A. Tardieu. Wellcome Collection, via Wikimedia Commons.
  • A compass rose, a sextant and a watch movement, from navigation and watchmaking engravings. Wellcome Collection.
  • A microscope, from Robert Hooke, Micrographia (London, 1665). Wellcome Collection.

Public domain

These works are out of copyright. They have been cropped, traced into outline and recoloured for this site.

  • Anatomy: Wenceslaus Hollar, a skull after Leonardo da Vinci (1645); Petrus Camper, a head in profile (1794); Bartolomeo Eustachi, vessels (1728); an anatomical atlas figure (c. 1680 to 1694); Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani (1747); Alphonse Legros, Studies of Hands (1880 to 1892).
  • Portraits: Wenceslaus Hollar's etched heads (1635 to 1660).
  • Natural history: Wenceslaus Hollar, butterflies, moths, a dragonfly and a shell (1645 to 1646); John Gould, The Mammals of Australia (1845 to 1863) and The Birds of Australia; Ferdinand von Mueller, Eucalyptographia (1879 to 1884); Basilius Besler, Hortus Eystettensis (1640 edition); William Henry Fox Talbot, a fern.

Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (open access), Wikimedia Commons, the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the National Library of Australia.