Four scenes of the beginning of a dental operation involving a dentist trying to extract a distraught patient's tooth. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.

  • Mayhew, Horace, 1816-1872.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899]
Reference:
16701i
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Description

Plates to: H. Mayhew and G. Cruikshank, The toothache, Manchester and London

Publication/Creation

Manchester (56 & 58 Oldham Street) ; London (4 Catherine Street, Strand) : Abel Heywood & Son, [between 1800 and 1899]

Physical description

1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour ; image 19.4 x 12.6 cm

Lettering

You resign yourself boldly to your fate. Once in the hands of the dentist, the time seems interminable. This is the first quarter of an hour! The second quarter of an hour!

Notes

See record number 16690i for the complete print

Reference

Wellcome Collection 16701i

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