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Description: | The College's fine art collection includes 681 visual works, of which 487 are portrait paintings, drawings or busts (see separate collection record for more details). Aside from portraits, the collection includes important 18th and early 19th-century animal paintings by artists such as George Stubbs, Jan van Rymsdyk, John William Lewin and Jacques-Laurent Agasse. Other themes represented in the collection are anatomical and pathological drawings and watercolours, including a series by Anna Zinkeisen; paintings and drawings of surgical operations, including paintings by Henry Tonks, Barbara Hepworth and Roy Calne; topographical and architectural views of the College and other medical institutions; and original watercolours by Thomas Rowlandson. The collection also includes approximately 2,600 portrait prints, mostly of medical practitioners or surgeons, dating from the 17th to the 19th century. | Subjects: | People (medical) Portraits scientific illustrations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)20 7869 6564 | Telephone: | +44 (0)20 7869 6560 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5443 | Go to resource |
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