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A great deal of dying in Dr Herz
In 1893 a middle-aged American physician lay ‘dying’ in a Bournemouth hotel. Cornelius Herz was wanted by the French authorities to answer charges in connection with the death of a business partner. A warrant for his arrest was even executed… Continue reading
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Visiting the stigmatics of the South Tyrol – II. Maria Domenica Lazzari and Maria von Moehrl
Maria Domenica Lazzari. Coloured engraving, ca 1840. Wellcome Library no. 260i The previous posting introduced the two stigmatics of the South Tyrol and described the visit of T.W. Allies and his two companions to one of them, Maria Domenica… Continue reading
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Visiting the stigmatics of the South Tyrol – I. Maria Domenica Lazzari
Maria Domenica Lazzari. Detail of Wellcome Library no. 708242i Two watercolours and an engraving in the Wellcome Library show two remarkable people in what is now the the northernmost province of Italy, the South Tyrol (Bolzano-Alto Adige). In the… Continue reading
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Inner visions of a twilight world
As already noted here, the exhibition Watercolour at Tate Britain (until 21 August 2011) has a section on Watercolour and War, in which a spectacularly gruesome painting by Charles Bell (1815) from the RAMC Muniments Collection is the earliest exhibit,… Continue reading
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The Wonders of Watercolour: Sir Charles Bell painting on loan at Tate Britain
Watercolour. What is it good for? Absolutely everything! Or so it seems. The versatility of this medium is explored in the all-embracing Watercolour exhibition at Tate Britain until 21 August 2011. Eight differently themed rooms demonstrate, for example, how watercolour has… Continue reading
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Richard Dadd in France – and in New York
“Sketch of the murder of Henry the Sixth in the Tower by Richard Duke of Gloucester, afterwards King Richard the Third … by Richard Dadd, Bethlem Hospital, 1853.” Wellcome Library no. 570213i On 28 August 1843 the painter Richard Dadd,… Continue reading