Transplanting of teeth.
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
- Date:
- 1787
- Reference:
- 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.
Description
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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Reference
Wellcome Collection 16589i
Publications note
Richardson, R., 1999. Transplanting teeth. The Lancet, 354 (9191), p. 1740.
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1938, no. 7766
Exhibitions note
Exhibited in "Teeth" at Wellcome Collection, 17 May - 16 September 2018
Notes
The title has been taken from wording on the object.
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