Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.
- Nicholson, Barbara
- Date:
- 1946-1951
- Reference:
- 3319438i
- Pictures
Collection contents
About this work
Description
A collection of watercolours and pen and ink drawings of surgical pathology by Barbara Nicholson. The works were commissioned by the surgeon Norman Matheson at Ashford Hospital, Ashford, Middlesex, and painted between 1946 and 1951.
Publication/Creation
Ashford, Middlesex, 1946-1951.
Physical description
537 paintings, drawings : watercolour and ink on paper.
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.
Terms of use
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Reference
Wellcome Collection 3319438i
Ownership note
The collection was presented to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1987 by Ashford Postgraduate Medical Centre.