Drawing of a bottle and three triangular shapes underneath

Previous title, replaced January 2025: A bottle containing name of "J.J. Beegan sculpturer" and other objects. Matchstick drawing by J.J. Beegan, ca. 1946.

Both drawings are across conjoined sheets of toilet paper, made using pencil, previously misidentified as the carbon from the end of a matchstick. Inscription written inside the bottle by the creator. It was previously combined with 2846853i / 2846856i to make a single image.

c.1946

1 drawing pencil on toilet paper

Prior to Wellcome Collection, this work was framed and stored in David O'Flynn's office in Orchard House, Lambeth Hospital. The work has been deframed during cataloguing for preservation reasons.

Photographs and discussion featured in ALMOST CERTAINLY, THE CATALOGUE RASIONNÉ OF THE CREATOR(S?) KNOWN AS JJ BEEGAN, The art of those with lived experience: excavating the Adamson Collection and The Adamson Collection: illustrations of mental illness or a testament to spontaneous artistic expression?

Photography and description by Edward Adamson published in Art as Healing, Edward Adamson, Coventure: London, 1984, p.9

This work is untitled; the title has been supplied by the cataloguer for identification purposes.

This work is attributed to the creator; the creator was identified by Edward Adamson in other documentation.