Doctor Botherum, The Montebank by Thomas Rowlandson

Hand-colored etching of a street crowd around a costumed quack doctor on a platform before a church, by Thomas Rowlandson, 18

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Doctor Botherum, The Montebank, Thomas Rowlandson (March 6, 1800), The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Via artnap.com

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A hand-colored etching by Thomas Rowlandson titled Doctor Botherum, The Mountebank, dated March 6, 1800. The scene shows a crowd gathered in a street before a Gothic-windowed church, where a costumed quack doctor stands on a platform while a harlequin figure gestures beside him and a man works on another's teeth. Vendors, a dog, and a couple embracing fill the lower foreground.

Date

March 6, 1800

Medium

Hand-colored etching and aquatint

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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CC0