| Physical description |
1 painting : gouache ; sheet 52 x 35 cm. |
| References |
Stephen D. Rachman, The mysteries of Lam Qua: medical portraiture in China 1836-1855, website, http://www.historicalvoices.org/lamqua/index.php (accessed 30 July 2004), this case not included |
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Peter Parker Collection, Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, website http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/parker (accessed 20 December 2004), no. 27 |
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Sander L. Gilman, 'Lam Qua and the development of a westernized medical iconography in China', Medical history, 1986, 30: 57-69; Larissa N. Heinrich, The afterlife of images: translating the pathological body between China and the West, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008 |
| Lettering note |
Bears no number on verso (unlike other works in this series) |
| Summary |
She is seated reclining against a cushion |
| Note |
After: one of at least 115 paintings executed in Canton (Guangzhou) by Lam Qua, ca. 1830-1850, for the American missionary Peter Parker (1804-1888), and which are now (2004) in the Peter Parker Collection, Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University); and the Gordon Museum, Guy's Hospital, London: see cited works by Gilman, Rachman and Heinrich. A painting in the Yale library (Peter Parker Collection, op. cit.) shows the same subject |
| Cite as |
Wellcome Library no. 643389i |
| Author, etc. |
Lam, Qua.
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| Subject name |
Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
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| Topic-LCSH |
Pathology, Surgical.
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Tumors.
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Breast -- Cancer.
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Women patients.
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| Genre/Technique |
Portrait paintings.
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Gouaches.
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| Copy photo no. |
L 40171 |
| System no. |
.b16433890
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| Record no. |
643389i |
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