At this new Wellcome Library event, attendees will be introduced to items from our collections, interpreted by acknowledged experts.
On the 27th April (2.30pm-4pm), our speakers will select a number of works from the Wellcome Library's collections on the theme of Medicine and Caricature, and unpick the meanings and details contained within these artworks. The session will also include a discussion of the selected items with attendees.
The event will be of particular interest to those with a strong research interest in the History of Art, History of Medicine or Visual Culture.
Speakers:
Prof Ludmilla Jordanova, Professor of Modern History, Kings College London
William Schupbach, Iconographic Collections Librarian, Wellcome Library
The session is free, but pre-registration is essential and numbers are limited to 15. Please email Tracy Tillotson (t.tillotson@wellcome.ac.uk) to book a place.
Image: Burdett, Peel, O'Connell and Wellington in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull with a rope; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829 (Wellcome Library no. 663317i).
