The Tooth Drawer
HC.J.16.X.32
Early nineteenth century coloured lithograph by Read (? David Charles, 1790-1851) after the oil painting by Gerrit Dou (1613-1675), a pupil of Rembrandt.
The operator is examining the teeth of a patient who is petrified while the latter's wife watches, with a look of worry on her face. In the foreground there is a bleeding bowl, on a shelf in the background there is a skull, jars and a number of instruments hanging from nails. A stuffed crocodile, a typical seventeenth century emblem of science, is suspended from the ceiling.
Nineteenth century, early
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