Doctor Drainbarrel

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Title

Doctor Drainbarrel

Subject

Social satire, Medicine in art

Description

Doctor Drainbarrel, “conveyed home in order to take his trial for neglect of family duty,” depicts an inebriated doctor unwillfully collected from a country ale house. Pushed in a wheel barrel by a servant with a roving eye, he is followed by his angry wife who doesn’t know her dress has revealed her attributes. The situation forewarns that she has other opportunities if her husband neglects her. A rooster with a flock of chickens imitates the wife’s gesture, as if to say that he knows how to be a better husband than the doctor does. A church included in the background landscape suggests that the doctor should be attending church instead of idling away his time at the pub.

Creator

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)

Source

[no text]

Publisher

Thomas Tegg, London

Date

1810

Contributor

Debra Cashion, in collaboration with Elisabeth Barrett, '15

Format

Hand-colored etchin; original dimensions, 240 x 341 mm

Language

[no text]

Type

Still image

Identifier

[no text]

Coverage

[no text]

Files

Doctor Drainbarrel (2).jpg

Collection

Citation

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), “Doctor Drainbarrel,” The Anatomist: Early Modern Medical Satire, accessed March 29, 2024, https://anatomist.omeka.net/items/show/17.