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Human skin, with tattoos, reputedly French, 1850-1920
Tattooed onto human skin is an image of a star, a female head and the inscription, ‘D’amour’ - meaning ‘my love’. It is unknown whom the tattoos represent, but it was, and remains, common to illustrate loved ones upon the skin. The skin was once owned by Parisian surgeon Dr Villette. He worked in military hospitals and collected and preserved hundreds of samples from the bodies of dead French sold…
Creator
- Science Museum, London
Subject
- tattoo
- human remains
- post mortem
Creator
- Science Museum, London
Subject
- tattoo
- human remains
- post mortem
Providing institution
Aggregator
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- Credit: Science Museum, London
Source
- L0064811
Identifier
- L0064811
- Science Museum A584
- vzeycn7e
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T12:00:00.448Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T12:00:00.448Z