<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The dentist [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, artist</dc:creator><dc:date>[5 November 1778]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>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 &amp; have invented a substance that answers the purpose of gums."</dc:description><dc:description>Title from item.</dc:description><dc:description>Signed in lower left of plate E.T., i.e. Edward Topham.</dc:description><dc:description>MD of publisher's name forms a monogram.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>