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This commission from the New Wellcome Gallery, opened in 2007 in central London, was to produce tactile
interpretations of two artworks from their collection: ‘St Elizabeth Visiting the Sick’, Adam Elsheimer c 1598
and ‘Portrait of Dr Gatchet’, Vincent Van Gogh 1890.

Elsheimer’s painting is complex and very detailed and therefore difficult to interpret for touch in its entirety
within a small panel. Consequently this interpretation concentrates on one important foreground element of
the painting; St. Elizabeth tending to a bedridden patient.

Reproductions of artworks by kind permission of The Wellcome Collection