Color printing enhanced the grotesque aspects of this monstrous fetus, shown here in two views. Inclusion in a popular journal offered scientific and artistic reasons to be fascinated by the image. Source: "Planche A. De l'Anatomie pour l'Histoire Naturelle." From Observations periodiques sur la physique, l'histoire naturelle. . . 80, vol. 1., pt. 1 (1752), opposite page 16.

From The creation of color in eighteenth-century Europe by Sarah Lowengard