Unknown - Fatuity, Francesco Secondo Draco Cordova

Date:
c.1860
Reference:
DGH1/7/3/1/102
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Records of Crichton Royal Hospital
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Description

Medium: Pencil Size: 18.1 x 13 Inscription reads, 'FATUITY, FRANCESCO SECO. DRACO CORDOVA', 'a severe man'. This work been attributed to William Bartholomew.

Publication/Creation

c.1860

Physical description

1 picture

Biographical note

William Bartholomew was a patient at Crichton Royal Institution and Southern Counties Asylum from 1853 until 1855 and again from 1856 to 1877. He completed several portraits of fellow patients which have survived in this collection. He was also commissioned by Dr W. A. F. Browne to complete a series of fifty-five portraits of patients, eleven of which have survived and are now held at the University of Edinburgh.

Related material

Art work by William Bartholomew, DGH1/7/3/1/15-25; Art work by unknown artist attributed to William Bartholomew: Unknown - Caerlaverock Castle and Sketch and Text, DGH1/7/3/1/100; Unknown - Figure of Eglinton, DGH1/7/3/1/101; Unknown - The British Balloon, DGH1/7/3/1/103; Case Books, DGH1/5/21.

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