Steel yard balance swing Size:S: 60 x 45cm View showing a street near

View showing a street near Charing Cross

18th June 1959

1895 Knight

and it is believed that he modelled the subjects of the painting on actual patients

Steel yard balance swing Size:S: 60 x 45cm View showing a street nearFront view of a medical instrument intended to correct deformities or irregularities in human bones and muscles. The device used gravity by suspending a patient (most likely a child) from the balance arms. The drawing includes details of weights and suspension tethers. Figure from the paper 'The description and uses of the steel yard balance swing', by Timothy Sheldrake, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 42 1742 1743, pp. 20 25.