A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is strapped to a chair in a dilapidated room, his worried wife looks on. Etching.

1 print : etching

Get miester hou ie hant, de duycker is dat woelen trock me iou soo een tant, iy sout het me wel voelen. Bears number: 3

One in a series of five scenes relating to the senses

C. Proskauer, Iconographia odontologica, Hildesheim 1967, pl. 37, p. 187

Horst Scholz, Brouwer invenit: druckgraphische Reproduktionen des 17.-19. Jahrhunderts nach Gemälden und Zeichnungen Adriaen Brouwers, Marburg 1985, pp. 170-171, no. 134

Wellcome Collection 16425i

After a painting catalogued by C. Hofstede de Groot (HdG 28) in connexion with Brouwer, but Scholz, loc. cit., regards Brouwer's authorship of this and other prints in the same series as hardly possible, as both the figure-types and the composition are to distant from his style. The etching has been attributed to Carel Allard, but his name appears on one state of this print as the publisher only: there is no etcher's name