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[cloth bound sketchbook containing 26 drawings]

Accession Number ART29200
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 24.5 cm x 31.3 cm
Object type Sketchbook
Physical description cardboard cover with red cloth binding
Maker Heysen, Nora
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Sketchbook comprising drawings by Heysen at the Blood and Serum Preparation Unit in Sydney, 1945.

  • Sister Daenman preparing stock for autoclaving; verso: [medical assistant];
  • [blood donation]; verso:[blood donation]
  • [blood donation]; [blood donation]
  • [blood donation]; verso: [blank page]
  • [study for blood donor]; verso [Study for male medical assistant]
  • [study for medical assistant and blood donation]
  • Private Laurence washing glass centrifuge tubes; verso [pathologist seated in the laboratory]
  • [pathologist seated examining slides]; verso: [centrifuge separating serum from blood]
  • [Bottling serum]; verso: [Sealing and labelling bottles of blood serum]
  • [Sealing and labelling bottles of blood];verso: [Centrifuge]
  • Miss Dallas the needle sharpener; [incomplete sketch]
  • [Blank page]; verso:[Study for washing carboys]
  • [Study of medical assistant cleaning carboys]; verso [Carboys]
  • [Instrument tray]
  • [Hands clasping bandage to arm]
  • [Artists' notes]
  • [Pathologists using microscopes]; verso: [bunk beds]

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