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A drypoint etching in silver grey depicting a central spinal cord with symmetrical nerve roots branching outward like a river delta.

The human spinal cord and its nerves as a drypoint etching in silver grey, the slender cord running down the centre, paired nerve roots fanning out on both sides like a river delta, burred lines soft, the light from the upper left, the study filling the frame with no paper margin or border, flat and square-on Voir plus

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