Caption
Overview of astronomical phenomena, anatomical models and skulls, page, photomechanical print, number: 'Taf. I.', cliché maker: Römmler & Jonas, Dresden, c. 1867 - in or before 1877, photographer, Saxony, paper, collotype, photoprint, height 179 mm x width 126 mm, (human) skull, anatomical models (usually series of five figures), astronomical phenomena, A vertical sheet containing a grid of photographic plates, each plate showing a different subject; near the top left and top right are side-profile images of a human skull with soft tissue and vessels partially exposed, and between them a full frontal view of a flayed human figure displayed upright, with visible musculature and internal organs; below the left skull is a circular image of a primate skull shown in three-quarter view, and below the right skull a matching circular image of another primate skull with prominent teeth; in the middle row a small circular close-up of a mouth appears between the skull images, and below those are two oval portraits of a hairy humanoid bust with a grimacing expression on the left and a different hairy humanoid bust with a more pronounced brow and open mouth on the right, with a small vertical photograph of a hand holding an open mouth between them; lower on the page are three large circular or oval astronomical or textured surface images, the leftmost a pale disk with a faint vertical line, the center a circular close-up of a textured knob-like object on a stalk, and the rightmost an oval image of a crescent-like mottled surface; thin margins surround the sheet and faint printing marks appear near the bottom.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26A79_251
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