Brain of a sparrow with a tumour on the cerebellum: figures showing sections of the brain. Watercolour and ink with pencil sketches, possibly by D. Gascoigne Lillie, ca. 1905.

1905

1 painting : watercolour, ink and pencil ; sheet 56 x 77.2 cm

Sparrow brain with tumour on cerebellum outside dura mater Drawings are annotated by hand in pen and pencil

The name of the zoologist responsible for this drawing is not known, although the subjects of the dissections in this series of watercolours suggests an Australasian, such as Denis Gascoigne Lillie or T. Jeffery Parker. One of the specimens depicted in the series was picked up at 'W. Renton [?] beach', which has not been located

Wellcome Collection 572981i