William Bartholomew - Portrait of James Yorstoun Thorburn

Medium: Pen and ink Size: 31.3 x 18.4 Inscription reads, '19 June 1855', 'James Yorstoun Thorburn. Chevalier of the Grand Cross of Poland. To Cowper James Yorstoun Thorburn with Papa's love. June 19th 1855. Sketched by Wm Bartholomew Esq of Edinburgh'. The sketch accompanies a letter to Thorburn's son. Thorburn was also a patient at Crichton Royal Institution and Southern Counties Asylum.

1855

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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 works by unknown artist attributed to William Bartholomew: 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; Unknown - The British Balloon, DGH1/7/3/1/103; Case Books, DGH1/5/21. Lothian Health Service Archive holds some notebooks kept by William Bartholomew during his time as a patient at Royal Edinburgh Hospital, GD16, Papers of the Medical Superintendents of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Drawings by William Bartholomew are held at Edinburgh University Special Collections, Medical Diagrams, Illustrations and Photographs used by Thomas Laycock, Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

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The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.