'Inflammation of the dura mater' William Wallace The painting is annotated lower

The painting is annotated lower left: 'Scale

Two knights clad in medieval armour

as England embarked on a well-deserved lap of honour

- I'm extremely obliged to you - but - eh

'Inflammation of the dura mater' William Wallace The painting is annotated lowerInternal surface of a portion of the human dura mater, one of the meninges (membranes of the central nervous system) covering the right hemisphere of the brain, showing inflammation. Plate 1 from the monograph The morbid anatomy of the human brain; being illustrations of the most frequent and important organic diseases to which that viscus is subject, by Robert Hooper (London, Longman, Rees, 1826). Inscribed: 'PLATE I. J. Howship, delt. J. Wedgewood