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Title Mrs Prince, after surgical removal of a breast. Watercolour, 1841.
Imprint 1841


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Physical description 1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 61.5 x 49 cm.
Lettering Cancer of the breast. Mrs. Prince, Cobourgh Street Leeds, 1840-1
Note Part of a collection of paintings depicting gentlefolk of Leeds with grievous illnesses
Lettering note Lettering on verso
Summary A woman of about 40 years of age in a lace cap, wearing a dark purple dress, open to below the bosom, and a yellow shawl, her right breast surgically removed, the wound open
Cite as Wellcome Library no. 603115i
Series Gentlefolk of Leeds afflicted with disease
Topic-LCSH Breast -- Cancer.
Mastectomy.
Women patients.
Place name Leeds (England)
Genre/Technique Watercolors.
Portrait paintings.
Copy photo no. L 37321
System no. .b16031155
Record no. 603115i
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