Home Collections Self-portrait with Loupes Self-portrait with Loupes This 2013 ink and watercolour image was produced for the front cover of the BAPRAS summer scientific meeting programme. It depicts the artist between cases with a surgical mask loosely falling around his neck together with his magnifying operating Loupes. Loupes are universally used by plastic hand surgeons when operating upon the small and delicate soft tissue structures within the upper limb, particularly the nerves, blood vessels and tendons. Donald has provided cover illustrations for numerous BAPRAS and British Society for Surgery of the Hand publications. Share Back to the Museum Collection Highlights 1910 John Grocott MRCS, LRCP, MBBS, FRCS John Grocott is the unknown “Fifth Man” of British Plastic surgery, and... Learn More 1850 Research Room Artefact database Visit the link below to search the collection database (Axiell) for all artefacts, images and... Learn More 1917 Why "The Queen's"? The Queen’s Hospital was named after Queen Mary, consort of King George... Learn More 1918 Sidcup's Australian Section An Australian section was formed at Sidcup, shortly following that from New... Learn More 1920 Gillies in America Shortly after the First World War, in November 1920, Harold Gillies made his first of several... Learn More 1925 A First International Congress of Plastic Surgery It is said that the “First International Congress of Plastic Surgery” took place in Stockholm in... Learn More 2012 BFIRST The British Foundation for International Reconstructive Surgery and Training (BFIRST) is a UK... Learn More 1987 BAPS Certification Training Scheme In 1987 BAPS introduced a three-year training scheme in plastic surgery for overseas graduates not... Learn More