Transplanting of teeth.

  • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
Date:
1787
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16589i
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Previous title, replaced March 2022: A fashionable dentist's practice: healthy teeth are being extracted from poor children to create dentures for the wealthy. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.

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Caricature by Thomas Rowlandson depicting an 18th century dental surgeon and his assistant extracting teeth from poor children and transplanting them directly into the mouths of wealthy elderly clients.

Publication/Creation

Rowlandson, 1787.
London (50 Oxford Street) : Wm. Holland, 1790.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; border 30.3 x 44.1 cm

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The title has been taken from wording on the object.

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1938, no. 7766
Richardson, R., 1999. Transplanting teeth. The Lancet, 354 (9191), p. 1740.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 16589i

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in "Teeth" at Wellcome Collection, 17 May - 16 September 2018

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