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

Previous title, replaced January 2025: Sunshine (left): a woman with a jug; darkness (right): a witch with time and death. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1971.

Drawing of a human figure in a yellow top pouring water from a jug with sun above. On the right, a drawing of a long thin figure wearing a witches hat with a figure holding a scythe and a crucifix below, and a sad face above on a dark purple ground. Creator's name, subject, interpretation and the date of creation are inscribed on the reverse, probably by Edward Adamson.

12 January 1971

1 painting watercolour on paper

Prior to Wellcome Collection, this work was stored in a folder on 1st floor, Reay House, Lambeth Hospital.

The title has been taken from wording on the object.