The dentist [graphic]

Description

Title: The dentist [graphic]
Creator: Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, artist
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker.
Published / Created: [5 November 1778]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Novr. 5, 1778 by M Darly
Abstract: A fat and bewigged dentist pokes at the mouth of a homely woman wearing a cap and low-cut dress. She is seated in a straight chair on a patterned carpet, with a large picture of a mouth and teeth hanging on the wall behind the pair. Beneath the title, text as follows: "I cures all the disorders of the mouth. I draws teeth in a minute without pain. I makes natural or artificial teeth & have invented a substance that answers the purpose of gums."
Description: Title from item.
Signed in lower left of plate E.T., i.e. Edward Topham.
MD of publisher's name forms a monogram.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26 x 18 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works)
Allusions
Etchings
Material: etching with roulette ;
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Dentistry
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Dentistry > England > 18th century
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780

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