Library Artwork Collection // MEDSpace

The Library’s artwork collection has a wide selection of portraits, prints, paintings, maps, sculptures, and busts. It includes portraits of Duke faculty members, paintings of the US Army 65th General Hospital, and a bust and portrait of James B. Duke. The Chatham Collection contains prints from the 1800s and 1900s and was donated to the library in the 1930s by Thurmond Chatham and features Audubon illustrations, race horses, and numerous harbor scenes. One seascape painting is attributed to Sir William Osler. The Library is also the repository for various bronze plaques that were initially installed in the School of Medicine when located in the Davison building.

List of items in this collection
	Title
	Thomas Sydenham, MD 1746 Print 66
	Thomas Willis, MD 1742 Print 67
	Edward Orgain 1979 Portrait of Edward Orgain.
	Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France undated Reproduction in color of 1657 map.
	The Last Gasp. Or Toadstools Mistaken for Mushrooms 1813 Caricature of a doctor examining a man's with two people in the background.
	The Anatomist 1811 Cartoon showing the terror of a patient and his wife as a surgeon opens his bag of instruments. Seeing the skeleton in the cupboard and a poster on...
	Seascape 1860s Framed seascape painting by Wilburt Davison's mentor, William Osler.
	Unicorn Captivity Scene undated Depiction of a unicorn in a corral. Reproduction print from "The Unicorn Tapestries" (1495-1505).
	A Devonshire Bull 1799 Print 12
	Hemisphaerii Borealis Coeli et Terrae Sphaeri Casceno Graphia 1661 Northern Hemisphere of Heaven and Earth.

Total Works (176)