The doctor.

  • Robinson, Frederic Cayley, 1862-1927
Date:
1916
Reference:
672830i
Part of:
Acts of mercy. Oil paintings by Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1915-1920.
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Previous title, replaced August 2023: Left, men, women and girls standing in a group outside a hospital; right, a kneeling woman and a child offer thanks to the staff. Oil painting by Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1916.

Description

The painting shows representatives of the civilian population in a courtyard outside the hospital. They include a mother nursing a baby, children, and mature people including a man resembling Cayley Robinson himself (the scholar wearing a brown cloak, left). The traditional architecture provides an aged man with a ledge to take the weight off his legs. On the right a woman requests help for her young daughter from a doctor at the entrance to the hospital. In the centre a dead tree bears a pessimistic message for human beings as the descendants of Adam and Eve: "Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return". On the left, a comet passes through the sky over a terrace of Fitzrovia townhouses (the terrace continuing from the previous painting in the pair)

Publication/Creation

1916.

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; sight 196.5 x 336 cm ; canvas 199 x 338.6 x 4 cm

Lettering

Cayley - Robinson 1916 Painted on back of canvas, presumably by F. Cayley Robinson: ""The doctor". F. Cayley Robinson, 1 Lansdowne House, [ditto mark to mean Lansdowne] Road, W."

Notes

Right painting of the pair.
Title provided by the artist.

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in the Library at Wellcome Collection, London, 5 November 2010-16 July 2013, 2015-
Exhibited in 'Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of mercy' at the National Gallery, London, 14 July-17 October 2010.
Exhibited in the Wellcome Library, London, 31 March 2009 - 2 July 2010.
Exhibited in the Winter Exhibition 1928 at the Royal Academy, London.
Displayed in Middlesex Hospital until 2007.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 672830i

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  • The doctor [right painting of two]

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