Serve To Illustrate structure cannot be understood unless it be examined - Dr. Thomas Southwood Smith c1824 Here, I'm surprised amongst them, having come to view the artist’s white-coated, fact-of-the-matter take on Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson, hanging - three by two meters oil on canvas, without frame - on the south wall of the anatomy room in the College of Surgeons, looking down on, animating this dissection room’s needs must goings-on, where, without thought, some twenty two give up their creaturely human workings to serve to illustrate. And what, pray tell, did you expect? Through large high windows north light streams in; it’s quiet - smells of school lab, formaldehyde. Rest assured, they lie beneath their covers.
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March 2022
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