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Mirth, Anguish

HC.J.16.X.56

Artist Unknown (originator), Edward Orme (agent)

Coloured engraving, published by Edward Orme 4th June 1810. After Plate VIII of a series in 'Human Passions Delineated' by John Collier (1708-1786). shows a patient sat on a chair, mouth open in anguish, as a dentist pulls on a string attachted to the patients tooth with his right hand. in his left hand he holds what appears to be an enlarged pair of forecepts holding a large moler that has been shaded in red to possibly appear bloodied. the dentist appears to be kneeling slightly lower than the patient, wearing a red tinted jacket. the patient has a bandaged wrapped around his head.

Nineteenth century, early