An operation for appendicitis at the Military Hospital, Endell Street, London. Chalk drawing by Francis Dodd, 1920.

[1920]

1 drawing : coloured chalks on paper ; sight 30.6 x 26.5 cm

Francis Dodd. Original study for picture in Imperial War Museum Label by Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on mount: "An operation for appendicitis at the Military Hospital, Endell Street, London, 1917 [sic]. Original sketch for the picture in the Imperial War Museum by Francis Dodd"

Dodd was commissioned to paint a picture of the women surgeons of the Endell Street Military Hospital at work, after an earlier picture commissioned from Austin Osman Spare had been rejected for alleged inaccuracy: see Geddes, op. cit.

Jennian F. Geddes, 'Artistic integrity and feminist spin: a spat at the Endell Street Military Hospital', The Burlington magazine, 2005, 147: 617-618

Wellcome Collection 45014i