Back of the door detail: the top-hat...

Photograph detail: the top hat (1951 exhibition)

'"As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession."'

(A Scandal in Bohemia)

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