Sujet

Sequah on Clapham Common, 1890. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Sequah on Clapham Common, 1890. William Henry Hartley or Sequah was a self proclaimed medical practitioner and entertainer who built up a cult like following. His ‘medical show’ took to the road in the form of a caravan, a full pioneering prairie rig, complete with assistants dressed up as ‘cowboys and indians’ that drew huge crowds wherever they went.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A24_377

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NA

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,2Mo (1,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 31,1cm / 4960 x 3675 (300dpi)

Mots clés

London England people group crowd job medical health medicine historical arts painting country figure figures science art occupation British museum color common scene depiction location century Britain doctor profession onlookers artwork medicine man concept physician quack oil Painting Colour healer 19th century showman onlooker 1890s nineteenth century witch doctor culture history historic Clapham Common Oil on canvas on-looker quack doctor quack medicine William Henry witch-doctor Unknown Sequah Hartley Oil on canvas medicine show 1890 Painting Heritage Art 19th-century on-lookers Wellcome Collection William Henry Hartley