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English Heritage volunteer gardeners at work around Leicester’s Gatehouse at Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. From about 1650 until the mid-20th century this gatehouse was inhabited as a remarkable domestic residence.
It was first built as a fully functioning gatehouse by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in the early 1570s. About 80 years afterwards, however, it was converted into a private house. For much of the next 300 years, a series of gentleman farmers lived here in relative comfort as the great medieval castle decayed about them.
In about 1650 the original passageway through the building was filled in, and a new entrance was created on the west side.
An extension was added on the east, to house bedrooms, servants' quarters, a kitchen, and a large staircase. Fine wall panelling and a great fireplace were salvaged from the Elizabethan state apartments and were installed throughout the building.
Surgical instruments converge on a small incision at the eyelid while a fine blue suture extends across the operative field. The wider composition also shows the nose, cheek, surgical markings and draping, placing the detailed work within the larger anatomy of the face.
This 2010 operating-room photograph is part of the Diary of a Surgeon™ archive documenting the evolution of surgical photography, patient education and surgeon marketing from 2006 to the present.