Vignette, from "The Battle of Milvian"Bernard Picartearly 18th centuryPaintings & drawingsThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
Putti perform an anatomical dissection on a dog; others hold a jar containing a human foetus; two more play with a spider; representing anatomy and natural history. Etching by B. Picart, 1729.Bernard Picart[Paris], 1729PrintsWellcome Collection