The treatment of wounded soldiers in a ward of a hospital. Drawing by Benjamin Zix, ca. 1805/1811.

  • Zix, Benjamin, 1772-1811.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1809?]
Reference:
40671i
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In each of the six beds in the ward a different activity is taking place. On the left side, a man is being lifted from a stretcher on to the near bed, in the middle bed a man receives a chamber pot from an orderly, and in the furthest bed a man lying prone has bandages removed from his back by a surgeon. On the right side, the furthest patient is being fed, in the middle a surgeon performs an operation on the thigh of a wounded soldier, and in the near bed is a man whose breeches are being cut open with scissors by a female nurse to expose a thigh wound: he cries aloud and clasps his hands, in pain or prayer or both

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], [between 1800 and 1809?]

Physical description

1 drawing : pen and brown ink, with grey wash and watercolour ; image 31.7 x 50 cm

Lettering

Pansement des blessés. Benjamin Zix fecit. Above the door, left, a cartouche painted with a pink cross on a blue ground, and on the wall above, painted in pink, the words "S. Thomas." (h superscript), perhaps the name of the hospital

References note

W. Schupbach, 'Two hospitals', Friends of the Wellcome Institute newsletter, summer 1999, no. 18, pp. 4-5

Reference

Wellcome Collection 40671i

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