Color Study

Hand-colored woodcut
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem
Basel: Johannes Oporinus, 1543
Courtesy of an Anonymous Private Collector; photo courtesy of Christie's, New York
Dedication copy presented by Vesalius to Charles V (1500-1558), Holy Roman Emperor

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