Cancer of right kidney in a female patient: specimen section from nephrectomy showing functionless kidney, entirely eroded by chondrosarcoma. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1957.

Nicholson, Barbara

Date:: 1957

Reference:: 35933i

Part of:: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.

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Collection contents

Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.
- Cancer of right kidney in a female patient: specimen section from nephrectomy showing functionless kidney, entirely eroded by chondrosarcoma. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1957.35933i

About this work

Description

This kidney specimen shows dissemination from cancer, in this case a chondrosarcoma, arising in mesodermal tissue which spreads by extension into neighbouring tissue and the blood stream

Publication/Creation

Ashford, Middlesex, 1957.

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour, with gouache ; sheet 26.4 x 21.6 cm

Contributors

Biographical note

Barbara Evelyn Nicholson (1906 – 1978) trained at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1923. She began her artistic career as a medical illustrator and was a founder member of the Medical Artists Association, where she is recorded as serving on an exhibition committee in October 1949. By 1951, she had illustrated G.F. Gibberd, A short textbook of midwifery (2nd ed., London: J. & A. Churchill, 1941) and Philip Wiles, Essentials of orthopaedics (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1949). The Medical Artists Association records last list her, in 1951. In the 1950s her focus moved to botanical subjects and from the late 1950s – 1970s she was a prolific botanical illustrator.

Lettering

Typed accompanying note gives patient history Bears number: 511/1957

Terms of use

closed until 01/01/2042

Reference

Wellcome Collection 35933i

Creator/production credits

Barbara E. Nicholson was a founder member of the Medical Artists Association, where she is recorded as serving on an exhibition committee in October 1949. By 1951, she had illustrated G.F. Gibberd, A short textbook of midwifery (2nd ed., London: J. & A. Churchill, 1941) and Philip Wiles, Essentials of orthopaedics (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1949). She also illustrated published books on flowers. The Medical Artists Association records last list her, in 1951, as resident at Berwick St John, Shaftesbury, Dorset. The collection of Barbara Nicholson's watercolours and pen and ink drawings were painted at Ashford Hospital, Ashford, Middlesex, at the request of the surgeon Norman Matheson between 1946 and 1951, and were presented to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1987 by Ashford Postgraduate Medical Centre

Ownership note

Presented to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1987 by Ashford Postgraduate Medical Centre, as part of a collection of medical illustrations by Barbara E. Nicholson.