A man volunteering to act as a subject in a medical experiment, unaware that it involves being stung by a gigantic and angry wasp. Pen and ink drawing by Patrick Wright, ca. 1992.

  • Wright, Patrick.
Date:
[1992?]
Reference:
38482i
Part of:
Worthless pursuits
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Description

The volunteer is a young man who is having his pulse and chest examined by doctors in white coats. Concealed behind a screen, unknown to him, a giant wasp with a savage sting, kept in a cage, is being provoked with a stick by a keeper in protective costume

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], [1992?]

Physical description

1 drawing : pen and ink, over pencil ; sight 25 x 22.7 cm.

Contributors

Lettering

Worthess pursuits no 38. Offering oneself as a human guinea-pig in scientific research.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 38482i

Reproduction note

Reproduced in: Patrick Wright, Worthless pursuits, London: Penguin, 1992

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Copyright in this work is currently (1997) administered by Chris Beetles Limited, 8 & 10 Ryder Street, London SW1Y 6QB

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