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Creator's name, interpretation, and the date of creation are inscribed on the reverse, probably by Edward Adamson.

Adamson Collection

Identified works created in Adamson's studios

Works by Bishop, Mary

A woman wearing a red dress dancing on the left and a woman hanging from gallows on a black ground on the right

Two tall grey stick-figures, one with nose and mouth, the other eyes and mouth, pointing down at a small person seated cross-legged with head bowed in red

A skeletal person seated cross-legged with head bowed in red

A black ground

A person with blonde hair holding a green shape, possibly an iguana

The head of a woman with a frog and a snake underneath

A head with large blue eyes

An eye and a mouth

A huntsman in green holds a bow and arrow in a forest, next to a goat

A man and a woman in formal wear seated at a table with a green skeleton on a black, red, green and blue background underneath

A judge looking over a crowd of figures in silhouette and a man in blue shepherding a white goat to the right

A person standing with arms and legs outstretched in brown

"This will ruin you! But its all in the [interests] of Science"

A woman standing in a burning street

A woman holding her head in her hands with a window above on a black ground

A naked man wrestling with a tiger on a green ground

A humanoid figure squatting with arms raised, surrounded by red diagonal lines

Men and women dancing in couples

A witch jabs a long sharp finger at a young woman hiding in the hollow of a tree trunk

A man standing holding a multiple tailed whip

A nun in a mountainous landscape falling from a high ledge

Men and women ascending naked in a gulf between two black spaces

A woman wearing a green dress hanging from a brown tree

A naked woman being bitten in the torso by a brown fox

A pair of blue birds nesting in treetops with a red fox below

A woman in a corseted dress between brown trees on a green ground

A man in a monk's habit with a black bird to the right and a grey tree behind

A man in a monk's habit with a green tree behind

A person kneeling with hands raised and a hand above

"Washed up"

A bird in flight towards a moon in a black sky

'I would like a good doctor I could trust"

"Don't you see that I am all alone"

'Help me"

A woman wearing a green dress seated on a bed with a window behind her on a black ground

A man seen from behind kneeling in prayer among mountains

A skeleton wearing a blue jumpsuit on a raft with flag showing RAF ensign in the ocean

A man with red eyes kneeling with arms raised and the outlines of mountains in the background

A naked figure seen from behind praises the sun on a dark brown, purple and black ground

A man, possibly Jesus Christ,  crucified wearing dark purple robes

Black waves

A woman covering her eyes as she walks along a black path at the foot of a high stairway on a ground of blue, green, brown and black rectangular shapes

A woman bowed down before a high stairway arising between two black spaces

A woman in purple approaching a well near a gothic style building

A nude human figure with arms raised on a dark black and blue ground

A person standing manacled to the walls and floor of a gabled cell against a black ground

A woman falling down a gulf between a dark blue and black space

Head of a man being strangled by a green snake coiled around his neck

Head of a man being strangled by another man behind him

Head and shoulders of a person with a green snake wrapped around the neck

A drowning woman throwing up her arms

A woman standing with arms raised and knees bent surrounded by black blotches

Sadist in the white coat

A blonde woman wearing a blue dress being held and impaled by a larger humanoid figure

A blonde woman wearing a dress and holding a bouquet of flowers held by a larger humanoid figure

A woman standing next to a tree and five windows on a black ground

A smiling woman with a child stretching out its arms in embrace on a black ground

A woman in a green dress lying face down on a dark purple, red, green and black ground

Silhouettes of two figures holding clubs and a small green lizard

A person standing on the apex of a church steeple on a ground of shades of dark blue

Head with spiky hair looking through a gap in their fingers

A person sitting cross legged burying their face in their crossed arms, surrounded by black loops

Two men in striped robes holding a woman by the wrists about to throw her into a fire, watched by two other people

Three scenes showing a white bird being killed by a hunter and drained of blood on a table

White bird in flight on a black and red ground

A woman bowing down before a three-headed monster

A woman crucified on a Y-shaped cross on a dark purple, green, pink and black ground

Drawing of a woman with three faces and hands raised in multiple colours

A purple face with jagged green and yellow hair, and with crossed hands raised in front of the face

A woman with a weight attached to her neck by a chain with a body of water to her left on a pink and purple ground

Cri de Coeur

A naked woman with two witches to her left and a large hand to the right, on a pink, green, purple and black ground

A kneeling man raises his hands on a dark green, pink, purple and black ground

Blonde woman lying with head forward on a black ground with pale round moon in sky

A broken bowl

A crowd in a London street walking past an underground station

A girl standing with her arms raised against a background of multiple brick walls

A woman wearing a green robe and a yellow headdress burying her face in her hands on a dark purple ground

A barefoot woman bowing down with crossed arms on a dark blue, green, purple and black background

Head and shoulders with hands raised in yellow on pink ground

Red zigzags and loops

A blindfolded woman in purple illuminated by a lantern hanging from branches on a black ground

A man crucified on an X-shaped cross on a dark brown, red and black ground

Human figure standing with limbs, neck and torso twisted

Head with arms raised to spiky hair in blue and purple

A woman in purple and blue face down on a red and black ground

Two arms stretched out among red and green stars

A woman crying with a barred window behind her on a black ground

Two humanoid figures grasping at each other in red and purple

A naked person standing on a red road that is barred by a row of vertical black and beige arrows which leads to a pink sun on a purple ground

Person with arms raised above head on purple and pink ground

Head and torso of a person with hands covering face in pink and blue on a purple ground

Head and torso of a woman with arms raised in green on a purple ground

A woman with raised arms in purple

Person with arms raised above head on red ground

A woman with arms raised amongst green waves and a black sail boat against a red sky

A girl with a downturned mouth raising her hands in pink on a purple ground

Five hands in red and purple surrounded by red droplets

A woman with two pairs of arms, one pair raised, the other covering her eyes, in pink and red on a purple ground

A woman wearing a pink dress standing with six flowers at her feet on a purple ground

Rounded mesh in purple and an eye

"The weak one & the strong one"

Diagonal purple lines and darts emerging from a central stem bordered by eyes in white and purple

"The monk who fell in love with a nun & was changed into a turkey"

"My hands are tied"

"Human life is finished but life of a sort goes on"

"Fear of the sea"

"A passionate child"

"A sad memory"

"A painful memory"

Three large hands clawing at a small human figure on a red ground

"Mindless Fury"

'Pilgrim's progress"

'The personalities"

"Two personalities"

"A nun who has broken her vows"

"Overcome with shame & asking for help & mercy"

"Two personalities jammed together"

"Exhausted"

"Completely hopeless with no help"

"Trying to paddle a canoe alone through great danger"'

'Given up as hopeless"

"Shame"

"Making a loud noise on a trumpet"

'St John in the wilderness"

"Discord"

"The Gathering Storm"

"Two opposing eyes looking at each other"

Stacked red and purple triangles

Fox swimming"

The moon over a field in purple

'The cold unhappy woman with clouds of hate puffing icy winds on her"

'Woman caught in the web of Rosa Jackson's spite"

"Lady with a snake"

Facial features in purple with red crosses through the eyes

Facial features, droplets and two hands suggesting a person crying, and an arch formed of purple grids and diagonals

"Alone in a storm"

Two eyes in purple crossed through in red

"Snakes"

'The nun is filled with horror"

"The man is pierced with shame and all is horror from the neck down"

"The desparing woman"

"Portcullis of death"

"A child wishing for love from its parents"

Eyes, nose, mouth and sides of face in red and purple

A face in red and purple expressing horror

"Hopeless eyes"

"The cat learning to deal with other animals"

"Eyes which cannot see"

"The cat is afraid of being grabbed"

Two red heads in profile, staring at each other, and a series of red and purple diagonal lines

"Gulls fleeing the storm"

"Standing in the corner in disgrace"

"The flowers are dead"

Red and brown zigzags and grids, and a purple line amidst red darts and lines

'Bikini Ten years after "

A red nose and mouth showing big and sharp teeth

"The dead female half of me"

Two sets of facial features in red and purple, and two elongated rounded shapes in red and purple, a column of intersected diagonal lines in purple with brown droplets in between

'The dead woman in swirling ghostly shapes"

"The man washing away his sins in the River Ganges"

Eyes, nose and downturned mouth in purple

Rounded and jagged shapes suggesting facial features

"Drowning in despair"

"When the case is closed the woman is pierced with sharp spikes and so dies"

Red and purple stars amid red droplets and brown diagonal lines, and facial features in red and purple crossed through

Painting of rounded, spiral and diagonal line shapes to suggest facial features in red and purple.

"Two eyes looking at each other"

Diagonal lines surrounded by purple droplets

Geometric patterns in purple and red

"Drowning"

'A pigeon"

"The dark path through the wood"

'The dark path"

'The key"

'The woman with her head shaved waiting to be hanged"

'The padlock"

"An ugly face"

"The tired man is driven by the storm & can do nothing"

"After confusion comes fusion"

"The tired man is exhausted"

'My aunt...My mother...Time with his sickle"

A Christ-like figure on a black ground

'Exasperation, frustration at having to do more & more when ill"

Eyebrows, spiral eyes and a downturned mouth in purple

"Bewildered by winds"

Spiral eyes and a downturned mouth in purple

A woman in purple with green hair, standing in front of a weeping willow with green branches, both on a white background with dark grey and purple sky

A woman in purple with green hair, standing in front of a weeping willow with green branches, both on a white background with dark grey and purple sky

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