In the center man sits in a chair facing a woman, slightly below her. He uses a pair of tongs to extract her front tooth as she winces in pain, clutching the arm of her chair right hand and crumpling her straw hat with her left. Leaning on the back of the dentist's chair, a second man stares at the scene, wide-eyed and grimacing as he hugs himself in sympathy
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '9' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
Subject (Topic):
Dental equipment & supplies, Dentistry, Distress, and Pain