A woman diagnosed as suffering from chronic dementia. Colour lithograph, 1896, after J. Williamson, ca. 1890.
- Williamson, J., active 1890.
- Date:
- [1896]
- Reference:
- 38622i
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According to Bramwell, op. cit., p. 147, the subject was "a patient suffering from chronic dementia" who was formerly a patient in the Royal Asylum, Morningside, "she was, when my artist Mr Williamson painted her, an inmate of the Craiglockhart Poorhouse". Bramwell also prints further commentary on the plate by Dr George M. Robertson
Publication/Creation
[Edinburgh] : [publisher not identified], [1896] (Edin[burg]h : McLagan & Cumming Lith.)
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 24.5 x 19.5 cm
Lettering
Dementia.
Creator/production credits
The artist named as J. Williamson was presumably the John Williamson recorded as a portrait- and figure-painter in J. Johnson and A. Greutzner, The dictionary of British artists 1880-1940, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1976. Between 1885 and 1895 he exhibited four works at the Royal Academy, one at the Royal Society of British Artists, and eleven at the Royal Scottish Academy. From 1885 he gave an Edinburgh address, and from 1891-92 an address at 5 West Hampstead Studios, Sherrif Rd., London NW
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Wellcome Collection 38622i
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