A patient being examined before an audience of medical students. Watercolour attributed to M. Bishop, 1958 (?).

Adamson's published caption : Demonstration

[Netherne, Surrey], [1958?]

1 painting : watercolour, in grisaille ; sheet 55.5 x 45.5 cm

Contrary to Edward Adamson's normal practice, the name of the artist and the date are not inscribed on the verso

Executed by M. Bishop at Netherne Hospital in Surrey, with support from Edward Adamson

This work is untitled, the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Edward Adamson and John Timlin, Art as healing, London 1984, p. 21, fig. 20 ("Here a patient illustrates exactly how it feels to be demonstrated in front of a group of medical students. She feels that she is entirely naked before an audience of blockheads.")

Wellcome Collection 2948676i