Study of an exhumed corpse

Mounted together with WD10, WD8 and WD9 all of which are other studies of exhumed corpses. These are possibly studies by or studies after work by French artist Jacques Hippolyte van der Burch (1786-1856) procduced as a series of chromolithograph illustrations for the 1831 treatise on the subject of exhumation and decomposition by Mathieu J. B. Orfila, MD (1787-1853) and Octave Lesueur, MD (1802-1860) titled 'Traité des exhumations juridiques'. [Treatise on legal exhumations, and considerations on the physical transformations undergone by cadavers rotting in the earth, in water, in toilets and in manure]