Miss Mosley, afflicted with breast cancer. Watercolour, 1828.

Date:
Oct. 1828
Reference:
665384i
Part of:
Gentlefolk of Leeds afflicted with disease.
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Miss Mosley, afflicted with breast cancer. Watercolour, 1828. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A woman, looking downwards, her upper body exposed showing her right breast destroyed by cancer

Publication/Creation

Oct. 1828.

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 36.5 x 50.5 cm

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Lettering

Entire destruction of the breast by cancerous ulceration. See Miss Moseley's case Oct 1828. Lived 6 years after Lettering on verso: Cancer of the breast, see Miss Mosley's case

Notes

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 665384i

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