A man (Po Ashing) with a tumour on his left arm. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, 1836.

Lam, Qua.

Date:: [after 1836]

Reference:: 603133i

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Description

Case described in Peter Parker's case report, case no. 2152, 3 November 1836, tumour treated by amputation at the shoulder joint in less than one minute

Publication/Creation

[after 1836]

Physical description

1 painting : gouache ; sheet 52 x 30 cm

Contributors

Lam, Qua.

Lettering

Bears number on verso

References note

Stephen D. Rachman, The mysteries of Lam Qua: medical portraiture in China 1836-1855, website, http://www.historicalvoices.org/lamqua/index.php (accessed 30 July 2004), no. 31

Sander L. Gilman, 'Lam Qua and the development of a westernized medical iconography in China', Medical history, 1986, 30: 57-69

Larissa N. Heinrich, The afterlife of images: translating the pathological body between China and the West, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008

Reference

Wellcome Collection 603133i

Reproduction note

After: one of at least 115 paintings executed in Canton (Guangzhou) by Lam Qua, ca. 1830-1850, for the American missionary Peter Parker (1804-1888), and which are now (2004) in Yale Medical Library, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University), and the Gordon Museum, Guy's Hospital, London: see cited works by Gilman, Rachman and Heinrich