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Women studied medicine at Moscow University from the 1870s so that villages which could not afford male doctors’ wages could employ someone with medical training.
Emily Shanks studied at Moscow School of Art, and exhibited there and in London. Her sister and brother-in-law Louise and Aylmer Maude, translators of Tolstoy’s works, lived near Chelmsford from 1897.
Title
Ear Inspection in a Russian Hospital
Date
1890s
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 88.8 x W 106.6 cm
Accession number
M28336
Acquisition method
presented by Lionel Maude, nephew of artist, 1966
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
Title and presentation plaque
