The Pump Room
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Title
The Pump Room
Subject
Social satire, Medicine in art
Description
In 1778 Rowlandson produced a series of prints, The Comforts of Bath, about this popular English spa resort. Displayed here is a preliminary drawing for one of these prints, entitled The Pump Room, depicting a social center at the spa where the water from the hot springs was sold as a medicinal beverage. In the left corner a figure in a wheel-chair probably suffers from gout, a crippling illness for which the waters at Bath were popularly thought to offer a miraculous remedy.
Creator
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Source
from The Comforts of Bath
Publisher
S. W. Fores, London
Date
1798
Contributor
Debra Cashion, in collaboration with Elisabeth Barrett, '15
Rights
Relation
Format
Hand-colored etching
Language
[no text]
Type
Still image
Identifier
[no text]
Coverage
[no text]
Files
Collection
Citation
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), “The Pump Room,” The Anatomist: Early Modern Medical Satire, accessed March 28, 2024, https://anatomist.omeka.net/items/show/27.