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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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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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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria

A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.

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  • 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.
  • A young man holding a stylus and a drawing, being shown a drawing of Fame by a female figure personifying Painting. Wash drawing by F. Dekker after G. Reni.
  • A sheet with two sketches of a nun's head and a standing male figure painting. Pencil drawing.
  • A nude male model before a painting and drawing life class. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet, 1771, after J.H. Mortimer.
  • Young women representing poetry and drawing, with examples of sculpture, literature, music, painting, and objets d'art. Wood engraving by H. Linton after A. Lumley.
  • The works of the late Professor Camper, on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the arts of drawing, painting, statuary, etc. ... / Illustrated with seventeen plates.
  • The works of the late Professor Camper, on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the arts of drawing, painting, statuary, etc. ... / Illustrated with seventeen plates.
  • The works of the late Professor Camper, on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the arts of drawing, painting, statuary, etc. ... / Illustrated with seventeen plates.
  • The works of the late Professor Camper, on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the arts of drawing, painting, statuary, etc. ... / Illustrated with seventeen plates.
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