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Ralph Hedley R.B.A.
Passing the doctor
1896
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oil on canvas
1311 x 1567 mm
SIGNED b.l.c. R. Hedley 1896

EXHIBITED

Bewick Club 13th Annual Exhibition,
Newcastle upon Tyne, 1896 (38)  

Royal Academy, London, 1897 (1062)        

Loan Exhibition of Works
by Ralph Hedley R.B.A.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle,
1938 (6)

Exhibition of paintings
by Ralph Hedley R.B.A.
Shipley Art Gallery,
Gateshead, 1938-9 (40)  

Darlington Public Art Gallery, 1939 (32)

Middlesborough Art Gallery,
Dunning Street, 1940 (40)

Ralph Hedley: Tyneside Painter,
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 1990-91

                      

PUBLIC COLLECTION 

Laing Art Gallery,
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Reference TWCMS : G2332
Given by Andrew Nichol Dodds, 1917

Ralph Hedley Archive reference
1896_w004

Passing the doctor

Young recruits, probably for the Northumberland Fusiliers, queue up for their medical check.

When Passing the doctor was shown at the Royal Academy, London, in 1897, a doctor wrote to the medical magazine The Lancet, saying:

“With the exception of the fact that the doctor has his stethoscope at an angle at which we are sure he could not hear anything, the picture is good”.