Brain of a sparrow with a tumour on the cerebellum: figures showing sections of the brain. Watercolour and ink with pencil sketches, possibly by D. Gascoigne Lillie, ca. 1905.

  • Lillie, Denis Gascoigne, 1888-1963.
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1905
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572981i
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Brain of a sparrow with a tumour on the cerebellum: figures showing sections of the brain. Watercolour and ink with pencil sketches, possibly by D. Gascoigne Lillie, ca. 1905. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1905

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1 painting : watercolour, ink and pencil ; sheet 56 x 77.2 cm

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Sparrow brain with tumour on cerebellum outside dura mater Drawings are annotated by hand in pen and pencil

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Wellcome Collection 572981i

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The name of the zoologist responsible for this drawing is not known, although the subjects of the dissections in this series of watercolours suggests an Australasian, such as Denis Gascoigne Lillie or T. Jeffery Parker. One of the specimens depicted in the series was picked up at 'W. Renton [?] beach', which has not been located

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