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Operating room staff wheeling a patient back into a ward after an operation. Oil painting by Ethel Macmillan, ca. 1940.
- Macmillan, Ethel, 1909-1957
- Date
- [between 1939 and 1941?]
- Reference
- 525188i
- Pictures
- Online
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Licence
In copyright
Credit: Operating room staff wheeling a patient back into a ward after an operation. Oil painting by Ethel Macmillan, ca. 1940. Wellcome Collection. In copyright
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Description
Two female nurses and a corpulent male porter, seen from behind, push a hospital trolley holding a patient towards the left of the picture, while another nurse walks along side holding up a bottle of saline infusion. On the right, a canister of oxygen (?)
Publication/Creation
[London], [between 1939 and 1941?]
Physical description
1 painting : oil on canvas laid down on millboard ; millboard 30.3 x 40.3 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Back from the theatre. E. Macmillan
Publications note
'Ethel Macmillan', The times, 31 August 1957 ("she developed an extremely individual style in oil painting, depicting groups of people as they live ... proletarians crowd round whelk stalls, nurses bring back a patient from the operating theatre, loungers sit in Spanish cafés ...")
Lettering note
Label on verso with handwritten text: "Ethel Macmillan (Mrs), 17 Grove Terrace NW5 'Back from the theatre'"
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 525188i
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May be reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence granted in 2017