Creative work made using needle and thread or yarn

£1,000 patriotic needlework competition : organised by the daily sketch for the benefit of the British Red Cross Society / British Red Cross Society.

A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.

A physician taking a young woman's pulse, her mother is standing behind them, a basket for a urine flask is on the floor. Collotype after J. Steen.

16 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 15 x 15 cm

Georgie Meadows : stitched drawings ... touring exhibitions / Wellcome Collection.

1 print : engraving ; image 25.7 x 21.1 cm

God points to the Virgin and tells the angel Gabriel to go and announce to her the birth of Jesus Christ. Engraving by Jan Sadeler after F. Sustris.

Georgie Meadows : stitched drawings : free exhibition / Wellcome Collection.

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 28.1 x 21.4 cm

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Georgie Meadows : stitched drawings ... touring exhibitions / Wellcome Collection.

A physician taking a young woman's pulse, her mother is standing behind them, a basket for a urine flask is on the floor. Collotype after J. Steen.

God points to the Virgin and tells the angel Gabriel to go and announce to her the birth of Jesus Christ. Engraving by Jan Sadeler after F. Sustris.

Georgie Meadows : stitched drawings : free exhibition / Wellcome Collection.

A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.