Commissioned by Henry Tate and first exhibited in 1981 at the Royal Academy, the painting "The Doctor" immediately became popular. Especially in the medical community and for many others, “The Doctor” displays an ideal of 19th century medicine and therefore retains much of its popularity (Kernahan). This image also appeared on postage stamps in the United States and Great Britain. It is one of fifty-seven original images on the new Tate Britain site donated by Henry Tate. Fildes paints a young boy reclining on two chairs, his face illuminated by the glass lamp on the table. The doctor, dressed in a custom-made suit, sits next to the makeshift bed and looks anxiously at his patient. The lampshade of a lamp is tilted so as to give light to the two central figures: the doctor and the child. While most of the light comes from the lamp, some light also comes in from the recessed window near the mother. Dawn begins to come through the windows. The doctor turns away from the medicine bottle and cup on the table and directs his gaze completely towards the child. The extent of the young man's illness can be seen from the half-empty medicine bottle on the table, and from the bowl and jug, used to relieve the boy's fever, on the bench. The scraps of paper on the floor could be the doctor's prescriptions for medications already taken. The boy's parents are shown in the background. They are placed in such deep shadows that it is often difficult to distinguish these figures in reproductions. The boy's father, standing at the back with his hand on his wife's shoulder, whose hands are clasped as if in prayer, looks at the doctor's serious face. The mother sits at a table and hides her face in her clasped hands...... center of the card ......nstein may also have influenced Filde's (Kernahan) fictionalized and romanticized painting of the tragic scene. There is no standard equipment, nor new technology within the image, giving it a timeless feel (Kernahan). In 1949 and 1952 "The Doctor" was used by the American Medical Association in a campaign against a proposed nationalization of medical care proposed by Harry S Truman. It was printed on posters and pamphlets together with the slogan “Keep politics out of this picture”, playing on the idealisation and romanticism of the image. The image is still a matter of debate as to how accurate it is to the time it was painted and to medicine as it was. It's still incredibly popular. After her first exhibition, nearly 1 million copies of etchings were sold in the United States alone, and she is one of the first to make the working class a popular subject.