Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome, Basel: ex. off. J. Oporini, 1543, K1 recto, woodcut, leaf height 55.8 cm, CCF.46.36.

This image in the Epitome featured a different verse from the corresponding image in the Fabrica. The passage is from the poem on the Second Punic War by Silius Italicus (first century AD), ‘Death robbed him of all his beauty: a Stygian hue spread over his snow-white skin and destroyed his comeliness’ (Punica, book 12, lines 243-244, transl. J. D. Duff).