Drooping eyelid in 44-year old woman with brain cancer and diplopia: detail study showing weakness of left side of face. Pencil drawing by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1949.

  • Nicholson, Barbara
Date:
1949
Reference:
33105i
Part of:
Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.
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About this work

Description

This study is one of a series to show the progression of a malignant brain tumour from admission in the earliest possible stage, to post-mortem specimen sections; to demonstrate dissemination from cancer

Publication/Creation

Ashford, Middlesex, 1949.

Physical description

1 drawing : pencil ; sheet 27 x 21 cm

Biographical note

Barbara Evelyn Nicholson (1906 – 1978) trained at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1923. She began her artistic career as a medical illustrator and was a founder member of the Medical Artists Association, where she is recorded as serving on an exhibition committee in October 1949. By 1951, she had illustrated G.F. Gibberd, A short textbook of midwifery (2nd ed., London: J. & A. Churchill, 1941) and Philip Wiles, Essentials of orthopaedics (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1949). The Medical Artists Association records last list her, in 1951. In the 1950s her focus moved to botanical subjects and from the late 1950s – 1970s she was a prolific botanical illustrator.

Lettering

Drawings from patient, 25.5.49 Lettering in pencil on mount, typed accompanying note with patient history includes details of nose bleeds and swelling but states that radiograph showed no evidence of tumour or erosion Bears number: 152/1949

Reference

Wellcome Collection 33105i

Creator/production credits

The watercolours and pen and ink drawings held by Wellcome Collection were painted by Barbara Nicholson at Ashford Hospital, Ashford, Middlesex, between 1946 and 1951, at the request of the surgeon Norman Matheson.

Ownership note

Presented to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1987 by Ashford Postgraduate Medical Centre, as part of a collection of medical illustrations by Barbara E. Nicholson.

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