Title in pencil upper left., Date derived from related print, Print00126., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"From the bustle and life visible on all sides it would seem that the period is fair-time, when the rustics and agricultural population of the vicinity in general flock into the town, holiday-making. A travelling mountebank has established his theatre in the market place; the person of the ingenious charlatan is decked out in a fine court dress, with bag wig, powder, sword, and laced hat complete, the better to excite the respect of his audience; he is holding forth on the marvellous properties ascribed to the nostrums which he is seeking to palm off on the simple villagers as wonder-working elixirs; while his attendants, Merry Andrew and Jack Pudding, are going through their share of the performance. One branch of the mountebank physician's profession was the drawing of teeth; an unfortunate sufferer is submitting himself to the hands of the empiric's assistant. The rural audience is stolidly contemplating the antics of the party, without being particularly moved by Dr. Botherum's imposing eloquence, these vagabond scamps being frequently clever rogues, blessed with an inexhaustible fund of bewildering oratory, and witty repartee at glib command. Leaving the quack, we find plentiful and suggestive materials to employ the humourist's skilful graver scattered around. In the centre, a scene of jealousy is displayed; the beguilements of a portly butcher are prevailing against the assumed privileges of a slip-shod tailor, who is seemingly tempted to have recourse to his sheers, to cut the amorous entanglement summarily asunder. On the left, the promiscuous and greedy feeding associated with 'fairings,' is going busily forward, and on the opposite side are exhibited all the drolleries which can be got out of a Jew pedlar, his pack, the diversified actions of customers he is trying to tempt with his wares, and the bargains for finery into which the fair and softer sex are vainly trying to beguile the cunning Hebrew on their own accounts. It seems probable that Rowlandson in his print of Doctor Botherum may have had a certain Doctor Bossy in his eye, a German practitioner of considerable skill, who enjoyed a comfortable private practice, said to have been the last of the respectable charlatans who exhibited in the British metropolis. This benevolent empiric, as Angelo informs us, dispensed medicines and practised the healing art, publicly and gratuitously on a stage, his booth being erected weekly in the midst of Covent-Garden Market, where the mountebank, handsomely dressed and wearing a gold-laced cocked hat, arrived in his chariot with a liveried servant behind. According to the old custom, the itinerant quack-doctor, with his attendant gang, was as constant a visitor at every market-place as the pedlar with his pack."--Grego
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse below image, six on either side of title: High o'er the gaping crowd, on market day, while Andrew drolls the blockheads pence away ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks -- Tooth Extraction -- Dr. Bossey., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; sheet 373 x 433 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 6 March 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Jews, City & town life, Plazas, Medicine shows, Audiences, Crowds, Peddlers, and Butchers
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., See: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, political and personal satires, no. 8909., 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.
On a stage a man in a hat extracts a tooth from a patient as a clown taunts him; the audience on three sides of the stage look on with looks of horror or amusement
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Teeth, Extraction, Dentistry, Audiences, Clowns, and Pain
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks; Medicine chests.
Publisher:
apud Nic. Cavalli
Subject (Topic):
Dentistry, Teeth, Extraction, Quacks & quackery, Pain, Medicines, Medical equipment & supplies, and Monkeys
Title from item., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Date of original work: 1672., 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., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from street address., Published in Le Charivari, 27 June 1843., Above image: Les Malades et les Médecins 15., In image lower left: Ch. Jacque 20., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chez Pannier Editr. R. du Croissant, 16 and Imp. d'Aubert & Cie
Subject (Topic):
Dentistry, Teeth, Extraction, Physicians, Dental offices, and Pain
Title from item., Date of publication derived from date of original work., Original work created 1824-1828, published by Delpech, Paris., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Teeth, Extraction, Dentistry, Pain, and Dental equipment & supplies
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Above title: Satyrisches Bild; No.88., J. Cajetan is a pseudonym of Anton Elfinger., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dining.
Publisher:
im Bureau der Theaterzeitung, Rauhensteingasse No.926
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of birth and style of dress depicted in print., Place of publication from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Mounted.
Publisher:
F. Sinnett, Editeur, 17, rue d'Argenteuil and Imp. Frick fres. r. de la Vlle Estrapade, 17, Paris
Title in pencil upper left. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"Popular print, satire ... : The interior of a farrier's smithy. A country woman sits on a low stool, while a farrier pulls at her tooth with a pair of pincers which he grasps in both hands. He presses one foot on her outstretched leg while a grinning assistant holds her head in both hands. A third man stands behind, also grinning and holding a stick above his head; one eye is bandaged. All three wear leather aprons. The wretched woman holds the tooth-drawer's left sleeve with one hand, his nose with the other; her eyes are closed. A boy (left) flourishes a broom. Behind (right) is the lighted forge. An anvil, horseshoes, and farrier's tools are in the foreground. A grinning face looks in through a wide-open window (left). Thatched buildings and trees are seen through the window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Copy in reverse of a ca. 1784 print after Robert Dighton entitled: The country tooth-drawer. Cf. No. 6759 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Teeth, Extraction, Dentistry, Blacksmiths, and Pain
The interior of a well-furnished room. The dentist stands in front of a middle-aged woman seated in a chair (right); he holds her forehead with one hand, with the other he applies a small instrument to her mouth. She grasps a shawl in her left hand. A black boy in livery stands behind the dentist (left) holding an open case of instruments; he looks round grinning. A young woman stands clasping her hands and looking with an expression of horrified concern at the operation. The dentist wears a bag-wig. A cat arches its back and meows. Through a draped sash-window is a steeple. On the wall is a bird in a cage and an oval landscape. Below it is a settee on which sheef of paper
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner., Copy in reverse of a ca. 1784 print after Robert Dighton entitled: The London dentist. Cf. No. 6760 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Teeth, Extraction, Black people, Birdcages, Cats, City and town life, Drawing rooms, Servants, and Women domestics
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)
Title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Medicine shows, Stages (Platforms)., Spectators, Dentistry, Clowns, Patent medicines, Ladders, and Snakes
Title supplied by curator, and printed in Latin, French, and German below image., Printmaker supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death, Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber shops, interior; Barber surgeons and surgery.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Monkeys, Barbers, Surgeons, Teeth, Extraction, Phlebotomy, Wounds & injuries, Crutches, Hairdressing, and Medical offices
Title supplied by curator, and printed in Latin, French, and German below image., Printmaker supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death, Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Monkeys, Quacks and quackery, Medicine shows, Teeth, Extraction, Pickpockets, Crutches, Audiences, Patent medicines, Selling, and Vomiting
Titles supplied by curator., Date from item., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dentistry, Teeth, Extraction, Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Pickpockets, and Pain
Title devised by curator., Signed and dated by the artist., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Teeth, Extraction, Dentistry, Dental offices, Pain, and Medical Examinations
Title devised by curator., Signed and dated in charcoal at lower right., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title devised by curator., Signed and dated in charcoal at lower right., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Teeth, Extraction, Dentistry, Pain, and Dental offices
Title devised by curator., Signed and dated by the artist., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
