This painting was created by Warren and Lucia Prosperi, completed in 2001. It was based on historical photographs and artifacts from the MGH Archives and Special Collections, plus a photograph staged for the purpose. Twenty people associated with MGH posed in the Ether Dome in January 2000, in costumes and make-up provided by the Department of Performing Arts at Emerson College, to depict the first successful public demonstration of surgical anesthesia.