Copy of The Woman Physician

Sculpture

Drexel Founding Collection

Name/Title

Copy of "The Woman Physician"

Entry/Object ID

100.59

Acquisition

Notes

Credit Line: Donated by Walter Cohen Means of Accession: Donation Source: Two copies commissioned by Walter Cohen; First commissioned and presented to what was then the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia by Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton of New York

Made/Created

Artist

Clara P. Hill

Dimensions

Height

55 in

Width

83 in

Dimension Notes

Framed

Height

52 in

Width

79-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

Unframed

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Object Label

Label

First commissioned and presented to what was then the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia by Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton of New York, as a symbolic "interpretation of Dr. Morton's conception of the maternal spirit which especially animates women to lessen suffering and heal the sick."

Label Type

Curator Pick of the Month

Label

In honor of Match Day we selected this relief sculpture which was first commissioned and presented to what was then the Womans Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia by Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton of New York. The relief sculpture is a symbolic "interpretation of Dr. Morton's conception of the maternal spirit which especially animates women to lessen suffering and heal the sick." Walter Cohen, DDS, former president and chancellor of the Medical College of Pennsylvania, had two copies made of the original, one of which is at Queen Lane and one, which originally hung in Dr. Cohen's home, but has been donated to Drexel University College of Medicine.