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.
Toothache, or, Torment and torture, Torment & torture, and Torment and torture
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published August 1, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):
Toothache, Dentistry, Quacks and quackery, Dental equipment & supplies, Pain, Birdcages, Wigs, and Dogs
Leaf 72. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print of a country 'quack' doctor standing behind an alarmed looking female patient with his fingers in her mouth. A young boy stands on the left holding a dish and pliers. In the background stands a woman wearing a ... cape and holding the side of her mouth whilst exhibiting obvious pain. Suspended from the ceiling is a bird in a cage. A bill on the wall reads: 'Barnaby Factotum / Draws teeth Bleeds and 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'."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue and "Print of a tailor seated cross legged on a table as he irons a garment. Beside him on the table, stands a pewter tankard and shears. A second tailor, also ironing, sits behind the first with a look of surprise cast in the direction of a woman who stands at the door holding a basket of ?cucumbers on her head. The woman resembles Rowlandson's etching of a 'Shrimp Girl' (RCIN 913702). In the foreground, a small boy warms irons by a fire as cat stands next to him, yawning."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Toothache, or, Torment and torture, Torment & torture, and Torment and torture
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with its own title, signature, and imprint statement., Restrike. For original issue of the left side of the plate, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810964. For original issue of the right side of the plate, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810963., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 375., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 374., and On leaf 72 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published August 1, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill and Field & Tuer
Title from item., Place of publication and date supplied by curator., Copy after John Collier (Timothy Bobbin)., Copy of illustration in Human Passions Delineated, 1773., Sheet trimmed within plate., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from item., Place of publication and date supplied by curator., Copy after John Collier (Timothy Bobbin)., Copy of illustration in Human Passions Delineated, 1773., Sheet trimmed within plate., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"A fashionable dentist is extracting the teeth of the poor in order to insert 'live teeth' immediately into the jaws of his patients. In the centre a young chimney-sweep sits in an arm-chair, over the back of which the dentist leans, holding the boy's head, and inserting an instrument into his mouth. Next (left) a lady sits in a similar chair watching the sweep with a pained and angry expression; she holds a smelling-bottle to her nose; she has just endured an extraction and is about to receive a transplantation. On the right a good-looking young lady leans back, her fists clenched in pain, while a spectacled dentist peers closely into her face, placing his instrument in her mouth. Behind her a lean, ugly, and elderly man wearing regimentals stands in profile to the right, holding a mirror in which he inspects his mouth with a dissatisfied expression. On the left a ragged boy and girl are leaving the room, both crying with pain: the girl inspects the coin in her hand. On the door is a placard: 'Most Money Given for live Teeth'. A placard on the wall is headed by a coronet and two ducks, indicating quackery: 'Baron Ron------Dentist to her High Mightiness the Empress of Russia'. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 6760."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state of a plate that was reissued in 1790, at which time Harris's imprint was burnished out and replaced with that of William Holland. Cf. No. 7766 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Tooth extraction -- Tooth transplant -- Baron Roh...*.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1787 by J. Harris, No. 37 Dean St., Soho
Subject (Topic):
Dentistry, Teeth, Extraction, Donation of organs, tissues, etc, Quacks and quackery, Poor persons, Chimney sweeps, Pain, Dental equipment & supplies, Chairs, and Signs (Notices)
"The dentist, short, fat, and bald, stands in back view on a low stool, his knees pressed against the chair, his left arm round the victim's neck; he tugs at an upper tooth. The thin elderly patient raises her left leg in agony, overturning the folding wash-stand on which the dentist's appliances are spread. These include a basin, cup (both spilling their contents), a double set of teeth, a hammer, and a stoppered jar which falls against a large pier-glass, starring it. Both are unaware of the accident, though a little dog barks from under the table. The glass reflects dentist and patient, showing the latter gripping the arm of the chair. There is a window (right), the lower part screened by a slatted green shade. Above this dangle teeth with large blood-stained roots. On a chest of drawers-bookcase are laid out sets of false teeth. The books are Warbler; Winter in London; Lock on the Gums; Miseries of Human Life [Beresford, see See British Museum catalogue No. 10815, &c]; Bible; Tales of the Devil; Tommy Two Shoes; Treatise on Tooth Powder & Brushes; Feast of Wit; Tales of Terror, and two big volumes of Frankensteiv [sic] [Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published 1818]. The room is carpeted to the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tugging at a high tooth
Description:
Title etched below image., The word "high" in title remains visible but was scored through and replaced with "eye"., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dentists -- Tooth extraction -- Dentures., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.0 x 34.3 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Topic):
Bookcases, Dental offices, Dentistry, Dogs, Mirrors, Pain, and Reflections
"The dentist, short, fat, and bald, stands in back view on a low stool, his knees pressed against the chair, his left arm round the victim's neck; he tugs at an upper tooth. The thin elderly patient raises her left leg in agony, overturning the folding wash-stand on which the dentist's appliances are spread. These include a basin, cup (both spilling their contents), a double set of teeth, a hammer, and a stoppered jar which falls against a large pier-glass, starring it. Both are unaware of the accident, though a little dog barks from under the table. The glass reflects dentist and patient, showing the latter gripping the arm of the chair. There is a window (right), the lower part screened by a slatted green shade. Above this dangle teeth with large blood-stained roots. On a chest of drawers-bookcase are laid out sets of false teeth. The books are Warbler; Winter in London; Lock on the Gums; Miseries of Human Life [Beresford, see See British Museum catalogue No. 10815, &c]; Bible; Tales of the Devil; Tommy Two Shoes; Treatise on Tooth Powder & Brushes; Feast of Wit; Tales of Terror, and two big volumes of Frankensteiv [sic] [Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published 1818]. The room is carpeted to the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tugging at a high tooth
Description:
Title etched below image., The word "high" in title remains visible but was scored through and replaced with "eye"., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dentists -- Tooth extraction -- Dentures.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Topic):
Bookcases, Dental offices, Dentistry, Dogs, Mirrors, Pain, and Reflections
