'Inflammation of the pia mater and tunica arachnoides' Finish:Single 11th February 1969

11th February 1969

The well-fed and well-clothed appearance of the collector is in stark contrast to the terrible poverty of the family

Part of the wall of Montague House

driving a van and four horses across the frozen Serpentine in Hyde Park

'Inflammation of the pia mater and tunica arachnoides' Finish:Single 11th February 1969Human cranium exposed to show the brain and inflammation in two membranes of the meninges (protecting the central nervous system). Plate 3 from the monograph The morbid anatomy of the human brain; being illustrations of the most frequent and important organic diseases to which that viscus is subject, by Robert Hooper (London, Longman, Rees, 1826). Inscribed: 'PLATE III. J. Howship, delt. J. Wedgewood sculpt. INFLAMMATION OF THE PIA MATER and TUNICA