Touch for Touch or a Female Physician in Full Practice
A young courtesan leads an elderly gentleman out of a room, while taking the guineas he gives her in her right hand. Behind them is an elaborately furnished room with a framed painting of Danaë Receiving the Golden Rain above the fireplace.
Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
May 1, 1811
Hand-colored etching
34.3 x 24.3cm
59.533.1406
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019