M0005741: "The ludicrous operator, or blacksmith turn'd tooth drawer"

Date:
23 September 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/47/51
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M0005741: "The ludicrous operator, or blacksmith turn'd tooth drawer". Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: 'The ludicrous operator, or blacksmith turn'd tooth drawer'

Description

Mezzotint from 1768 by John Dixon (1720-1804) after John Harris the elder (d. 1834) depicting a blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a woman patient.

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

Physical description

2 photographs glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm photographic print; 15.3 x 12 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 643336i

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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