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pentel brush and marker sketches from Philly’s Mütter Museum of medical oddities.

1. skeleton #5, from a lineup

2. two attempts at the “soap lady” - a 19th century philadelphia woman whose skin mummified into the soapy substance “adipocere.”

underneath the soap lady drawings you see the dried skeleton of a child, displayed hanging in an open-armed pose.

cross-post from my stuff-only blog

7:07 pm  •  19 January 2012  •  2 notes