Surgeon-General James Jameson MD CB QHP LLD — 'Army Medical'

Leslie Ward's chromolithograph presents Jameson full-length against a pale blue-grey ground, rendered in the exaggerated proportions characteristic of Vanity Fair's 'Men of the Day' series: a broad, squat torso swelling the dark blue military frock-coat, gold epaulettes, diagonal sash, and medal ribbons. He grips a dress sword in a white-gloved right hand, left hand planted at the hip. The face—florid, bald, heavily moustached—is Ward's familiar mockery of senior officialdom. The caption 'Army Medical' situates Jameson within the late-Victorian campaign to professionalise military medicine, a reform cause still contested during the South African War then under way.