Addenbroke's Hospital Cambridge: subjects commissioned from a medical artist in the hospital, ca. 1969-1971. Drawings by Moyra Sheldon-Jenkins.

  • Sheldon, Moyra, 1923-approximately 2003?
Reference:
532906i
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About this work

Physical description

approximately 80 drawings : watercolour, pen and ink, stencil etc. ; various sizes

Contents

A. Moyra Sheldon details (Medical Artist, Addenbroke's Hospital Cambridge )
B. Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge: drawings commissioned for hospital use. Includes papers illustrated for Addenbrooke's consultants (R.Y. Calne, J.D. Scott, Arthur Rook and others)
C. Drawings of life in the hospital. Includes sequence of watercolours about a schoolgirl who breaks her leg, goes to hospital, is cured and receives after-care from the Physiotherapy dept.
D. Humorous drawings
E. Medical diagrams: 1. Kidney. 2 Eye. 3 Skull. 4 Instruments. 5 Heart. 6 Arteries. 7 Ant 8. Stomach 9. Limbs 10. Pneumothorax 11.Black and white technical

Creator/production credits

Moyra Sheldon-Jenkins, who worked under the name Moyra Sheldon, was Medical Artist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, from March 1969. The will of Moyra Therese Cecilia Sheldon-Jenkins was proved not later than March 2003 (according to Genealogists' magazine, March 2003, vol. 27, no. 9, p. 22): this might refer to the same person

Reference

Wellcome Collection 532906i

Type/Technique

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Holdings

  • Ca. 80 drawings etc. in five sections in two boxes

Where to find it

  • sections A-D

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    Closed stores
  • section E

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    Closed stores

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