Anatomical Drawings from 1819 #
May 1st, 2008 | In Worth Seeing
I’m not sure what makes these so compelling, but they are. Perhaps this is it:
Unlike European anatomical drawings of the time, which tended to depict the corpse as a living thing devoid of pain (and often in some sort of Greek pose), these realistic illustrations show blood and other fluids leaking from subjects with ghastly facial expressions.
(via Boing Boing)