Patients and diseases. Paintings commissioned by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, ca. 1891-1906.

[between 1800 and 1899]

26 paintings : watercolour and oil ; various sizes

Conjectured to be part of a collection of paintings commissioned by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson and kept in The Clinical Museum, 1 Park Crescent, London and subsequently in Chenies Street, London. Most of them were acquired in 1915 for the Hospital of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (Victor A. McKusick, op. cit.) and subsequently passed to the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Several works by "Miss Green" --inferred to be the Mabel Green who signed some of these paintings--are mentioned by Hutchinson in his Descriptive catalogue of the clinical museum and journal of proceedings, 1894, and in his Archives of surgery (loc. cit.). It is possible (but not certain) that item no. 13 was not originally part of this collection, as it differs from the others in subject and technique

Jonathan Hutchinson, Descriptive catalogue of the clinical museum and journal of proceedings, 1894, p. 40 (portrait by "Miss Green: original J.H."), p. 54

Jonathan Hutchinson, Archives of surgery, vol. 6, 1895, p. 127, p. 375 ("I possess an excellent portrait by Miss Green"), and vol. 7, 1896, p. 286 ("the portrait [in the Clinical Museum] (by Miss Green)"

William Osler, 'The Jonathan Hutchinson iconography: a preliminary note', The Johns Hopkins Hospital bulletin, vol. 26 (1915), no. 289, pp. 82-83

Victor A. McKusick, 'The Gordon Wilson lecture: the clinical legacy of Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913): syndromology and dysmorphology meet genomics', Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, 2005, vol. 116: 15-38

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