Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.

  • Caton, Richard, 1842-1926.
Date:
1906
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44667i
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Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The frame contains two boxes, glazed at the front. The box in the upper member of the frame holds a stone inscribed with the letter gamma or pi: it is labelled "Fragment of ancient inscription from stoa of Asklepieion at Cos". The box in the lower member contains a photograph of the present painting annotated, presumably by Caton, with a key to the buildings: it is labelled "Restoration of precinct and temple of Asklepios at Cos"

Publication/Creation

1906

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 37.5 x 54 cm

Lettering

R. Caton

Creator/production credits

Biographical information about Caton is given by Brazier, loc. cit.

References note

Mary A.B. Brazier, A history of neurophysiology in the 19th century, New York: Raven Press, 1988, pp. 185-194, 208-209 (bibliography of selected writings), 162-163 (attitude of John Burdon-Sanderson to Caton), p. 172 (attitude of Francis Gotch and Victor Horsley to Caton)
Richard Caton, 'Hippocrates and the newly discovered health temple at Cos. Royal Institution of Great Britain, weekly evening meeting, Friday March 2, 1906', London: [Royal Institution of Great Britain], 1906 (painting reproduced)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 44667i

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