Fatally advanced skin cancer in a female patient: kidney and gall bladder sections with extensive melanomatosis. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1958.
- Nicholson, Barbara
- Date:
- 1958
- Reference:
- 36038i
- Part of:
- Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.
- Pictures
About this work
Description
This study shows dissemination from cancer, in this case multiple melanoma tumours, which arise in the skin and contain dark pigment
Publication/Creation
Ashford, Middlesex, 1958.
Physical description
1 painting : watercolour, with gouache ; sheet 17.4 x 26.7 cm
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
The typed accompanying note with patient history states that a tumour had been removed from the right temple, two years previously. The patient was admitted with multiple metastases and bleeding from the nose, stomach, vagina and urinary tract
Bears number: 539/1958
Creator/production credits
The watercolours and pen and ink drawings held by Wellcome Collection were painted by Barbara Nicholson at Ashford Hospital, Ashford, Middlesex, between 1946 and 1951, at the request of the surgeon Norman Matheson.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 36038i
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.
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