The town tooth drawer [graphic].

Copyright Date:

[between 1812 and 1817]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching ; plate mark 17.3 x 23.9 cm, on sheet 19 x 26.9 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/lwlpr38007

Notes:

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.
Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner.
Publication date from Isaac.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Title etched below image.

Abstract:

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.

Topics:

Birdcages.
Blacks,--depicted.
Cats.
City and town life.
Drawing rooms.
Servants.
Teeth--Extraction,--depicted.
Women domestics.

Topics:

Davison, William, 1780-1858, publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--Alnwick--1812.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1812.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

812.00.00.100

Orbis Record:

14581496

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr38007

Citation:

Isaac, P. Some Alnwick caricatures, no. 6

OID:

16854849

PID:

digcoll:4835535