12 Spinal Nerves

1 Study of the Borghese Gladiator, Anomymous Artist

2 Study of the Laocoon Group, Anomymous Artist

3 The Death of Seneca

4 Seated Female Nudes, Peter Paul Rubens

5 Apollo Belvedere

6 Skeleton with its Left Arm Raised and Facing Left

7 Anatomical Study of a Skeleton

8 Twenty-six Anatomical Studies of the Arm and Hand

9 The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp

10 Respiratory System

11 Nervous System of the Head and Trunk

12 Spinal Nerves

13 Side of the Face

14 Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles

15 Dorsum of the Forearm and Thumb

16 Side of Neck and Floor of Mouth

17 Inside the Chest – Showing the Internal Thoracic Artery

18 Side of the Neck with Nerve and Artery

19 Chest and Upper Limb

20 Two Drawings Showing Sections of the Side of a Mouth

21 Top of the Tibia

22 Front Forearm – Lateral View

23 Base of the Skull

24 Portrait of a Wounded Soldier before Treatment

25 Annotated Demonstration Drawings and Study of a Girl’s Head

26 Anatomy for Artists, Being an Explanation of Surface Form

27 Stooping Nude Child

28 Study of a Male Figure Walking to Right

29 Study of a Female Figure

30 Female Nude Standing

31 Volume of Anatomical Drawings

32 Study of a Male Nude Figure

12 Spinal Nerves

Spinal Nerves

Title: Spinal Nerves

Artist/Source: Charles Bell (1774-1842)

Date: circa 1830

Medium/Technique: watercolour, graphite and iron gall ink on paper

UCL Art Museum #9885

The watercolour is highly aestheticized, presenting the nerves in a highly symmetrical fashion and removed coherent entity from the entanglement of organs. In the bottom right Alexander Shaw appears to have signed the watercolour, while in the left Bell has written “C. Bell fecit:, Charles Bell made this, and offered a text inscription

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