Surgical anatomy: front cover of wrapper to Fascicule 1 of Joseph Maclise's work. Lithograph, 1851.

[London] (Princes Street, Soho) : [John Churchill], [1851] ([London] (4 Chandos Street, Covent Garden) : Savill and Edwards, printers)

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; sheet 54.5 x 37.7 cm

"Of the illustrations of this work I may state, in guarantee of their anatomical accuracy, that they have been made by myself from my own dissections, first planned at the London University College, and afterwards realised at the Ecole Pratique, and School of Anatomy adjoining the Hospital La Pitié, a few years since. ... J.M."--preface

Surgical anatomy. By Joseph Maclise, surgeon. Fasciculus 1. Irrupta tenet copula. Medicinâ literis. Bears caduceus-device: a winged staff entwined by two snakes and Latin inscription. Inscription means "It holds with an unbroken union: medicine [and] literature", the left snake representing medicine and the right one representing literature.

Wellcome Collection 641893i