William Bartholomew - Sketch of Three Gentlemen

Date:
c.1860
Reference:
DGH1/7/3/1/25
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William Bartholomew - Sketch of Three Gentlemen. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Medium: Pen and ink Size: 22.9 x 33.8 Inscription reads, 'Mr Blair', 'like Sir W. Scott in feature', 'James Johnstone'. On the reverse an inscription, which is no longer visible due to the rehousing of the art collection in 1989 reads 'By a maniac with degraded propensities'.

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 works 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 - Fatuity, Francesco Secondo Draco Cordova, DGH1/7/3/1/102; Unknown - The British Balloon, DGH1/7/3/1/103; Case Books, DGH1/5/21. Lothian Health Service Archive holds some notebooks kept by William Bartholomew during his time as a patient at Royal Edinburgh Hospital, GD16, Papers of the Medical Superintendents of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Drawings by William Bartholomew are held at Edinburgh University Special Collections, Medical Diagrams, Illustrations and Photographs used by Thomas Laycock, Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

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