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Chemotherapy-day drawings
Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
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An iris; flowers and birds; two ladies, one with a baby. Ink drawings.
Reference: 21836i- Pictures
Bloodletting points and moxa points. Ink drawing, Tibet.
Reference: 581554iPart of: Bloodletting points and moxa points: three drawings.
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Bloodletting points and moxa points. Ink drawing, Tibet.
Reference: 581553iPart of: Bloodletting points and moxa points: three drawings.- Pictures
Bloodletting points and moxa points. Ink drawing, Tibet.
Reference: 581555iPart of: Bloodletting points and moxa points: three drawings.
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A snake: two outline drawings, one showing the head and the other the underside of the tail of a snake. Ink drawing, ca. 1795.
Date: 1795Reference: 567015iPart of: Snakes of the Coromandel Coast, India.