A tooth-drawer in his establishment feeling the tooth of a bemused female patient, his assistant holds the pincers in readiness for extraction. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1823.
- Date:
- 1 August 1823
- Reference:
- 16659i
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A notice on the wall reads: "Barnaby factotum draws teeth bleeds & shaves wigs made here, also sausages, wash balls, black puddings, scotch pills powder for the itch red herrings, breeches balls and small beer by the maker in utrumque paratus."
Publication/Creation
[London] (Broadway, Ludgate Hill) : John Fairburn, 1 August 1823.
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 26.5 x 22.6 cm
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The tooth-ache, or, torment & torture. ; Rowlandson scul. 1823.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 16659i
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