A boy with a hole in his right cheek. Watercolour, 18--.

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A boy with a hole in his right cheek. Watercolour, 18--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

A boy, half-length in profile to right. Symptom: beginning of cancrum oris?

[between 1800 and 1899]

1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 48 x 34.2 cm

Cheek, mortification of. The food having passed through the opening in the cheek.

Part of a collection of paintings depicting gentlefolk of Leeds with grievous illnesses