Acute Pain
HC.J.16.X.54
Coloured engraving by an unknown artist published by Edward Orme (fl.1810-1814), after plate VI of a series in Human Passions Delineated (1773), written and illustrated by 'Tim Bobbin', John Collier's (1708-1786) pseudonym. Collier was a poet and painter who specialised in caricatures of the grotesque.
See HC.J.16.X.55, 56 and 57 for others in the series.
Collier's original descriptive verse for this plate read:
'A doctor once much puzzl'd was
To find out ways and means
How teeth to draw of ev'ry class
Without such wracking pains.
A packthread strong he ty'd in haste
On tooth, which sore did wring:
He pull'd, the patient follow'd fast,
Like Towzer on a string.'
Nineteenth century, early
