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Description: | A collection of artworks removed from Dundee Royal Infirmary (DRI) prior to its closure in 1998 and transferred to the care of the Tayside Medical History Museum. Most are portraits of doctors, surgeons, board members and benefactors to the hospital, which originally hung in the DRI board room and are now mostly displayed in the lecture theatres at Ninewells Hospital. These include surgeons John Crichton and Alexander Bell, physician James Arrott and board members and benefactors Mrs Bell, Mr & Mrs James Pullar, Mr & Mrs William Young, Mrs George Gilroy, James Soutar & Miss Elizabeth Soutar, Sir John Ogilvie MP, Lord Panmure, William Ogilvy Dalgleish and Sir James Caird & his sister Mrs Emma Marryat. Many of these were displayed in the celebrated 1892 Old Dundee exhibition. There is also a small portrait of W J Tulloch, Professor of Bacteriology and Dean of Medicine; various works depicting the hospital itself and a set of two prints The Poor Doctor & the Rich Patient and The Rich Doctor & the Poor Patient. Artists include T M Joy, R Peyton Reid, John Gibson, John Stewart, Peter Cleland, Archibald David Reid and David Foggie. | Format: | oil paintings drawings prints | Subjects: | Health and Medicine Fine Art | Source: | University of Dundee | Address: | 5-7 Hawkhill Place,
DD1 4HN | Creator: | Dundee Royal Infirmary | Contributor: | Accessioned by Museum Services from 2002 | Identifier: | DUNUC-CLD038 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | DUNUC-CLD000 | Format: | oil paintings drawings prints |
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