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The Dentist or Teeth Drawn with a Touch

HC.J.16.X.35

Artist Unknown (originator), Bowles and Carver (agent)

Coloured mezzotint. Depicts the interior of an eighteenth-century smithy with forge and anvil. The blacksmith, wearing a blue jacket and black hat and scarf, is extracting with oversized forceps of his own cosntruction a maxillary left central incisor tooth for a peasant, wearing a green jacket and cap, with orange fabric showing under his jacket. To the left of the two men, a woman, wearing a pink dres and white cap and shawl, woth her hand leaning on the anvil.

Nineteenth century, early