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Illustration by Hortense Douglas while attending Johns Hopkins Medical School, c.1925

Square drawing on white paper mounted on black board. Drawing depicts three vertical boxes. Inside each, a glass receptacle containing various levels of fluid is drawn using carbon dust.

Hortense Douglas Cantlie Fonds, McGill University Archives

This illustration, captioned “High-lights on Smooth Transparent Surfaces.” was done by Hortense Douglas during her studies. Here, she is seemingly practicing placing accurate highlights on empty, water-filled and sero-sanguinous fluid filled glassware.