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Articulated manikin, iron, used to teach bone-setting etcetera, possibly Italian, 1570-1700

‘The iron model showing the joints of a skeleton is very similar to the illustration in Fabricius’s Opera Chirurgica, his ‘Surgical Works’, first published in 1582. The model was possibly used to teach pupils about limb articulation as well as limb dislocation, injuries to limb joints and their subsequent treatment.

Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquadependente (c. 1553-1619) was professor of anatomy at the University of Padua, Italy, from 1565.’

via Science Museum

Grotesque panel, blackwork with small silhouetted figures, bandwork, foliage and flowers. Engraving. Matthias Beutler, Germany, ca.1582-1616

Pages of hands from ‘A strange and wonderful little art book, which all painters, sculptors, goldsmiths, stonemasons, cabinet-makers, coats-of-arms-makers, weapon-makers, and cutlers will find very useful, the like of which has never been seen or printed before.  Published by Heinrich Vogtherr, Strasbourg, 1540'

Peach. One of the drawings from an album; watercolour and bodycolour. Jacques le Moyne, ca 1585

Pages of feet from ‘A strange and wonderful little art book, which all painters,  sculptors, goldsmiths, stonemasons, cabinet-makers,  coats-of-arms-makers, weapon-makers, and cutlers will find very useful,  the like of which has never been seen or printed before.  Published by  Heinrich Vogtherr, Strasbourg, 1540'

'Il Stregozzo'; An allegorical subject; A young man conducting a sorceress in triumph on the skeleton of a colossal animal; From a design attributed to Raphael; Print on paper; Engraved by Agostino Veneziano; Italian School; ca. 1500-40.

Enamelled gold pendant in the form of the Agnus Dei, set with a table-cut diamond and rubies and hung with pearls, Germany, about 1580-1600.