Repository: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library / Subject Heading: Courtesans / Access: Public

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [1784]
Call Number:: Print10028
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A fat old woman leans back in an armchair, her left leg thrust forward. She pulls up her petticoat to display the bare leg, on which is a running sore, to an aged doctor (right), who bends over it, holding his spectacles to his eyes. Her desperate pl...
Description:: Title from text below image.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Prostitution, Skin, Diseases, Courtesans, Physicians, Candles, Eyeglasses, and Obesity
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A bawd on her last legs [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [1 March 1812]
Call Number:: Print00266
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Two handsome young courtesans coax an enormously obese and carbuncled 'cit' towards the door of a bagnio (right). One (right) takes him by the wrist, throwing back a cloak to reveal her charms; he leers hideously at her. The other takes him by the sh...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 1st, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):: Prostitution, Baths, Warm, Courtesans, Public baths, Doors & doorways, and Signs (Notices)
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Catching an elephant [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [1 May 1811]
Call Number:: Print10027
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A handsome well-dressed young courtesan leads the way out of a room, her left hand on the door-handle, her right held behind her to take the guineas which an aged and decrepit old rake gives her with a leer. A handsome well-furnished room is indicate...
Alternative Title:: Female physician in full practice
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 1st, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):: Prostitution, Courtesans, Coins, Older people, Lust, Interiors, Doors & doorways, and Fireplaces
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Touch for touch, or, A female physician in full practice [graphic]

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