RANADIVE, D.J. (artist) – HATCH, Lt.-Col. William Keith F.R.C.S, I.M.S. (1854-1935)
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Los 211 | RANADIVE, D.J. (artist) – HATCH, Lt.-Col. William Keith F.R.C.S, I.M.S. (1854-1935)
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60000GBP £ 60 000 – 80 000
56 large original watercolours of patients with various diseases. Mumbai: Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital, 1897-1901.
Fascinating collection of Indian watercolours used for medical training purposes, depicting patients with varying diseases being treated in the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital, Mumbai.
William Keith Hatch was born at Ahmadnagar in the Bombay Presidency on 6 December 1854, the son of Captain Hatch of the Bombay Artillery. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen and at King's College, London and entered the Indian Medical Service as surgeon on 31 March 1877, before being promoted to surgeon major on 31 March 1889 and, in the same month that this set of watercolours was begun, surgeon lieutenant-colonel on 31 March 1897. Resident at the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital in Bombay, he was also Professor of Anatomy and Curator of the museum at Grant Medical College in the same city, and one of the editors of the Indian Medical Gazette. He evidently had an interest in Sarcoma, a broad group of cancers that start in the bones and soft tissues, and Mycetoma, a progressive, chronic subcutaneous infectious disease, publishing papers on these subjects in the Indian Medical Gazette and The Lancet respectively. Perhaps as a reflection of this interest, there are 13 watercolours here that illustrate Sarcoma in various different parts of the body and 3 depicting Mycetoma of the feet and legs.
It seems likely that Hatch commissioned a local artist, D.J. Ranadive, to paint these images for training purposes. Their large size, and their clear illustration – albeit slightly naïve in nature – of the patients with their diseases make them an effective teaching tool, and on some of the drawings, pin holes can be clearly seen where they were presumably pinned up in teaching rooms or lecture theatres. Hatch seems to have commissioned two sets of drawings, with all the present ones marked ‘2nd copy.’ It seems likely that one set was kept at the hospital in Mumbai, while this duplicate set was presented to the Royal Society of Medicine in 1908. Although 6 are captioned to say they were copied from a photograph or from a book, it seems most likely these watercolours were drawn from life, especially those that give case and ward numbers and those with the patients’ names.
56 large original watercolours (each approx. 790 x 565mm), all with contemporary linen backing, 14 of which signed by the local Indian artist D.J. Ranadive and all seemingly executed by the same hand, 43 dated between March 1897 and August 1901, all but one captioned ‘W. K. Hatch. J.J. Hospital Bombay. 2nd copy,’ 6 captioned that they were either drawn from a photograph or a book illustration, 14 giving case and ward numbers of which 8 also give the patient’s name (some faint marginal staining more heavily affecting about 20 drawings although the worst of it affects the versos only, a few with pin holes at extremities, a couple of minor marginal nicks and tears with only one with a tear extending into caption). Contained in a contemporary half morocco portfolio with lock and small brass plaque (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Lt.-Col. William Keith Hatch, FRCS, IMS (184-1935; small brass plaque presenting the collection to:) – Royal Society of Medicine (stamps to verso of plates and to inside flap of portfolio with accession date of 5 November 1908).
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