"A student's dream"

"A student's dream"

Human dissection--Pictorial works.

'A standing skeleton joins seated cadavers, preparing to dissect a sleeping medical student. Iconographic elements that by 1906 had become commonplace in dissecting room group portraiture are gathered together in this science: the book propped open on the "subject's" feet, the skull resting on a stool in front of the table, and a pipe fitted btween the skull's teeth.'

Robinson, A. A.

Thorndike, Townsend W. (Townsend William), 1872-1929. Scrapbook, 1900-1908.

1906

image

1 photographic print, mounted.

English.

still image

f 1.L.4.

Gift of Townsend W. Thorndike to the Boston Medical Library, April 1, 1925.