Three woman and a man advance from the left with a blanket on which to toss an unsuspecting artist who is seated at the right side of the print. All display the excessive hair styles of the period. The individuals with the blanket appear to be characters from a print which hangs on the wall behind them, "The back-side of a front row" (British Museum cataloge 5430), who have come to punish the artist for his caricatures. The artist holds in his hand "Miss Shuttle cock" (British Museum catalogue 5376) which also bears the monogram RS, thereby identifying the artist as Richard Sneer. Another print on the wall, entitled "Lex talionis", depicts a person being tossed in a blanket
Alternative Title:
Lady's revenge
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Artist identified in British Museum catalogue as Richard Sneer, possibly Richard Brinsley Sheridan., Quotation beneath design: Heus bone, tu palles? pers., and Annotated with contemporary pencilled identification of subjects above design.
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., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
