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Sources Guide: Drawings, Paintings, Prints & Posters

Clinical

Physiological, anatomical, pathological

Microscopical

Psychoanalysis and patient art

Portraits

Ornithological, entomological, botanical, zoological

Artistic works

Oriental souvenirs

Posters

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

Clinical

Lieutenant Colonel Charles DONOVAN (1863-1951) and Mrs A A C SKELLAND (1883-1972) WTI/DON
Mrs Skelland’s watercolours of cases at Royapetta Hospital, Madras, 1917-1920

Professor George Grey TURNER (1877-1951) PP/GGT
Examples of drawings of operations, medical conditions, gallstones, etc, used in publications

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
Watercolours by Sir Charles Bell of wounded soldiers after the battle of Waterloo, 1815 (RAMC 95); by J Macdiarmid of injuries and disease of the femur 1834 (RAMC 617) and of the human brain, 1844 (RAMC 585); by Leo Rawlings of the inmates of Changi Gaol Japanese prisoner of war camp, Singapore, 1940s (RAMC 951); and by Mervyn Smart [?Grant] of wounds sustained during the Allied invasion of Germany, 1944 (RAMC 272); drawing [?by H Gillespie] of case of fractured acromion process, 1865 (RAMC 234)

 
Physiological, anatomical, pathological

Sir Edward SHARPEY SCHAFER (1850-1935) PP/ESS
Drawings by William Sharpey of ‘Frog, newt, ciliary motion, etc’ [19th cent]

Air Marshal Sir Harold WHITTINGHAM (1887-1983) PP/HEW

A richly illustrated collection, including drawings, sketches, diagrams of: aspects of aviation medicine and physiological factors in flying, military and civil, 1930s-1960s; biochemistry illustrations, particularly carbohydrate metabolism, 1926-30; air crash fatalities and injuries, 1950s

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
Pathology notebook of T R Lewis, Government of India Sanitary Commission, 1870-1871, with illustrations, inc Joseph Fayrer’s sketch of fungus foot (RAMC 598); 19th century Chinese scrolls illustrating internal organs and acupuncture points (RAMC 219); engraving of a Chinese woman’s foot, crippled by binding, 1873 (RAMC 525/2)

Medical students’ notebooks often contain sketches and diagrams. See ‘Medical education (students’ notebooks)’ in the index to the Guide to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre

 
Microscopical

Lieutenant Colonel Charles DONOVAN (1863-1951) and Mrs A A C SKELLAND (1883-1972) WTI/DON
Mrs Skelland’s watercolours of microscopical preparations at Royapetta Hospital, Madras, 1917-1919

Dame Honor FELL (1900-1986) PP/HBF
Drawings in relation to work on embryology and cytology, 1919-1920

ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE WTI/RST
Sir Patrick Manson’s sketches of organisms seen in infusions of water in Hong Kong, 1884, and filariae, 1890s, and Mary Bruce’s drawings and watercolours of microorganisms, mainly trypanosomes, 1884-1913

STRANGEWAYS RESEARCH LABORATORY (f. 1905) SA/SRL
T S P Strangeways’s volumes of drawings relating to his research 1919-1922

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
Sir William Leishman’s watercolours of plasmodium Kochi [1914] (RAMC 627) and spirochaeta recurrentis [1920s] (RAMC 622)

  

Psychoanalysis and patient art

Michael FORDHAM (1905-1995) PP/FOR/H.3
Various mandala images given to Fordham, c. 1950s, [n.d.]

Rudolph Karl FREUDENBERG (1908-1983) PP/RKF/B.15/2, B/17
Artwork produced by patients at Netherne Hospital, 1950s-70s

Edward Fyfe GRIFFITH (1895-1988) PP/EFG
Drawings and paintings by analysands, 1940s-1960s
[A large part of Griffith’s papers relates to his work on symbolism]

Noel Gordon HARRIS (1897-1963) PP/NGH
Drawings and paintings by mental hospital inmates, including 2 cats by Louis Wain

Melanie KLEIN (1882-1960) PP/KLE
Drawings by child patients, 1920s

 


Portraits

Philip Rainsford EVANS (1910-1990) PP/PRE
Signed photograph of portrait of Sir Charles Symonds, 1963, caricature of Evans from Guy’s Hospital Gazette. 1968

Dame Honor FELL (1900-1986) PP/HBF
Cartoon ‘Mr Waddington - Creator’ by E N Willmer, 1931

Sir Henry HEAD (1861-1940) PP/HEA
Pencil portrait and cartoon of Head

Sir Alan Sterling PARKES (1900-1990) PP/ASP
Pen and ink sketch of C N H Long

PIONEER HEALTH CENTRE, PECKHAM SA/PHC
Pencil sketch of George Scott Williamson

ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE WTI/RST
Cartoon by Engel Terzi of visit by the Institut de Medicine Coloniale de Paris to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1903

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
Portrait in chalks [of G.J. Guthrie?] 1863 (RAMC 1759);
Cartoons of Percy B Spurgin administering injections, First World War (RAMC 1109)

 


Ornithological, entomological, botanical, zoological

Lieutenant Colonel Charles DONOVAN (1863-1951) and Mrs A A C SKELLAND (1883-1972) WTI/DON
Colonel Donovan’s watercolours of Balanophoreae in Burma, 1895

Sir Philip MANSON BAHR (1881-1966) WTI/RST/H
Album of orthnithological photographs, drawings and paintings, 1902-1908

Charles Joseph SINGER (1876-1960) PP/CJS
Singer’s watercolours of mosquitos at Salonika [c1916] and T H Huxley’s drawings of the anatomy of plants and spirula, 1880s

Charles Morley WENYON (1878-1948) GC/57
6 volumes of notes and drawings made in the laboratory of the Zoological Department, University College, London, c1900-1905

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
Sketches of eucalyptus and cinchona in a herbarium of medicinal plants of Mauritius, 1865 (RAMC 592); drawing by Engel Terzi of Auchmeromyia luteola [1904] (RAMC 565/9)

 


Artistic works

Michael FORDHAM (1905-1995) PP/FOR/A.8/1/2
Original painting for cover of 70th Birthday Festschrift, 1975

Sir John GADDUM (1900-1965) GC/110
Sketches by Gaddum of students at Cairo, 1930s

Professor Hamilton HARTRIDGE (1886-1976) GC/99
Watercolour by Hartridge of Leith Hill, Surrey

Keith HODGKIN (b.1919) GP/25
Cartoons and sketches illustrating his ‘Family Record’

Sir Edward SHARPEY SCHAFER (1850-1935) PP/ESS
Crayon sketch by Sharpey Schafer `View from my window December 1873’

Charles Joseph SINGER (1876-1960) PP/CJS
Pen and ink drawing by Singer of a house

Frederick Gordon SPEAR (1895-1980) PP/FGS
Drawing, cartoons, etc, relating to the Strangeways Research Laboratory and individuals working there

Wathen Ernest WALLER (d 1958) GC/93
Watercolour illustrations in his account of ‘The [First World War] campaign in Iraq’

Cicely Delphine WILLIAMS (1893-1992) PP/CDW
Drawings and paintings by internees, Changi Jail, Singapore, 1942-45

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
Drawings by Edward Louis McSheehy of habitations and racial types, Cape of Good Hope, 1858 (RAMC 1273/6); David Middleton Greig’s sketches of St Vincent Harbour, Madeira and a group [?of Africans] 1900 (RAMC 457); watercolours and pencil drawings illustrating diary of Captain Harold Upcott, Western Front and Italy, First World War (RAMC 1101); pencil sketch of a landscape [in Macedonia] by E B Waggett, 1916 (RAMC 1689); lithographs by Sidney D Moss of casualty evacuation at the Battle of Loos, 1916 (RAMC 393); cartoons by QMS R O’Connor, 1940s (RAMC 1856); watercolour sketches illustrating Gordon Kell’s service as medical orderly on troopships in the Mediterranean, 1952-1954 (RAMC 2012)

 


Oriental souvenirs

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
Illuminated poems in Persian [1850s] in praise of Dr Alexander Simpson (RAMC 222); woodcut-printed tract [c 1900] by Chinese Buddhists appealing against consumption of buffalo meat (RAMC 404)

 


Posters

EUGENICS SOCIETY SA/EUG
Posters and charts re eugenics, 1930s
Access only with permission of the Galton Institute

FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION SA/FPA
Birth control advertisements, 1950s, 1970s, welfare centre advertisements, 1920s, 1930s.
[The majority of the FPA’s poster collection was lost before deposit in the CMAC.]

HEALTH VISITORS’ ASSOCIATION SA/HVA
Nancy Zinkins’s visual aids for sex education classes, c.1970s

Sir Robert McCARRISON (1878-1960) GC/205
Posters illustrating the work of this Indian Medical Service nutrition expert

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS SA/NPT/A/6/4-5
Health promotion posters (mostly re TB prevention), 1950s-70s

QUEEN’S NURSING INSTITUTE SA/QNI
Posters publicising the work of Queen’s Nurses [c.1940]-1995

Frederick MURGATROYD GC/27
‘Child’s Guide to Medical Categories’ for military duties 1943

SEQUAH GC/69
Advertisements for Sequah’s patent medicines, 1890s

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
Artwork for propaganda re venereal disease, Naples 1943-44 (RAMC 466/48); appeals against the IRA, 1972 (RAMC 987); First World War propaganda (RAMC 979/5, RAMC 1943/4, RAMC 1140(P)); advertisements for concerts and other entertainment (RAMC 1926, RAMC 1969/7)

WELLCOME FOUNDATION ARCHIVES WF/M/PL
Posters relating to promotion of Foundation’s products, 1950s-90s

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