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Wash drawings

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Images from the collections

Images of Wash drawings

114 images from works
  • World War I: orderlies of the Royal Army Medical Corps attending to the wounded. Watercolour by D. MacPherson, 1917.
  • Saint Matthew. Wash drawing.
  • A man with a wooden leg collecting brushwood in a wicker basket slung over his shoulder. Pen and wash drawing.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing in the wounded to an open air Japanese field hospital. Wash drawing by G. Soper, 1904, after a photograph by J. Ruddiman Johnston.
  • Address to the Earl of Selborne from the town of Heidelberg, Transvaal. Wash drawing and manuscript, 1905.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A man leaning to the right, gripping a tree trunk, seen from behind. Ink wash painting by C.E. Stölzel, 1820/1837(?).
  • Edward Jenner (?), in profile. Pencil and wash, 1800/1820.
  • A Chinese man holding an axe. Painting by a Chinese painter.
  • A statue of a physician as Aesculapius whose shadow forms the shape of a donkey. Pen drawing by Gay-again, 1831.
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Works from the collections

125 works

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    Frederick Prince of Wales. Grisaille after P. Mercier, 1734.

    Mercier, Philip, 1689?-1760. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 2199808i
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    Patie Birnie, a fiddler. Wash drawing.

    | Reference: 169i
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    Saint Lucy with her blind mother Eutychia. Ink drawing by Tommaso Minardi.

    Minardi, Tommaso, 1787-1871. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 45395i
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    A member of the Jenner family. Pencil and wash, 1800/1820.

    | Date: 1800-1820 | Reference: 560208i
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    Saint John the Evangelist. Ink wash painting.

    | Reference: 5900i
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Related topics

Human anatomy
World War II
Anzio, Battle of, Anzio, Italy, 1944
Death
Plague
Litters
Soldiers
Hospitals, Military
War victims
Physicians

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