Detailed ross drawing of the brain at operation with a retractor in place and the right optic nerve labelled. Annotations on the back read "cholesteatomatous cyst of frontal lobe" and "patient's name 19.7.49".
See VFA.7.140 for a photograph of exactly the same image, which acts as a useful comparative tool between photographic and artistic medical representations. There are also a number of other drawings in the collection relating to this patient ( VFA.7.136, VFA.7.137 and VFA.7.138) and one other operative photograph (VFA.7.139).
Signed by the artist in the bottom right.