For further information, please contact Susan Guise Sheridan, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
The image above was adapted from William Cheselden's "Praying Skeleton, in profile", 1733, etching with engraving, [plate 76 in Cazort, M, M Kornell and KB Roberts (1996) The Ingenious Maching of Nature:  Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy.  Ottawa:  National Gallery of Canada, p. 193.  Plate 36 in Osteographia, or The Anatomy of the Bones].