Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Stories

  • Article

Aphasia and drawing elephants

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

  • Article

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.

  • Article

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.

  • Article

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.

All stories (38)

Images

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Beauty: illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women / Preceded by a critical view of the general hypotheses respecting beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and followed by a similar view of the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc. By Alexander Walker. Illustrated by drawings from life, by Henry Howard.
All images (377)

Catalogue

All works (2.8K)