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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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Aphasia and drawing elephants

When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.

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Behind the scenes: Drawing the Bombay plague

Ranjit Kandalgaonkar discusses his commission for 'Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian medicine'.

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The cook who became a pariah

New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.

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  • The interior of a draper's shop with figures carrying and measuring cloth. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A drinking-horn (rhyton) in the form of the head of a deer: outline drawing with measurements. Engraving, 17--.
  • Physical properties of Vincent's cryptotoxic bodies; measure of the superficial tension of horse serum after addition of various cryptotoxic bodies. Ink drawing.
  • The Hamilton vase: a wine-mixing bowl (krater) painted with a monument in which are a man with a horse, and with other figures; outline drawings from side with measurements. Engraving, 17--.
  • The Hamilton vase: a wine-mixing bowl (krater) painted with a monument in which are a man with a horse, and with other figures; outline drawing from front with measurements. Engraving, 17--.
  • Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
  • Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
  • An ornate garden monument with women seated either side holding garden plans and design implements. Etching by J. Schynvoet after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • The moon, viewed in full sunlight. Stipple engraving by J. Russell, 1805.
  • The moon, viewed in full sunlight. Stipple engraving by J. Russell, 1805.
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