Unknown - The British Balloon

Medium: Pencil Size: 18.2 x 11.5 Inscription reads, 'B', 'The British Balloon'. This work been attributed to William Bartholomew.

c.1880

1 picture

William Bartholomew was a patient at Crichton Royal Institution and Southern Counties Asylum from 1853 until 1855 and again from 1856 to 1877. He completed several portraits of fellow patients which have survived in this collection. He was also commissioned by Dr W. A. F. Browne to complete a series of fifty-five portraits of patients, eleven of which have survived and are now held at the University of Edinburgh.

Art work by William Bartholomew, DGH1/7/3/1/15-25; Art works by unknown artist attributed to William Batholomew: Unknown - Caerlaverock Castle and Sketch and Text, DGH1/7/3/1/100; Unknown - Figure of Eglinton, DGH1/7/3/1/101; Unknown - Fatuity, Francesco Secondo Draco Cordova, DGH1/7/3/1/102; Case Books, DGH1/5/21.

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