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A London dentist extracting a tooth from a woman's mouth; her female companion and the dentist's black servant-boy are present. Coloured mezzotint after Robert Dighton, ca. 1784.
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814
- Date:
- [1784?]
- Reference:
- 583664i
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Credit: A London dentist extracting a tooth from a woman's mouth; her female companion and the dentist's black servant-boy are present. Coloured mezzotint after Robert Dighton, ca. 1784. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Description
The patient and her companion wear outdoor clothes, suggesting that the well-furnished room in which the scene is set is the dentist's. His servant holds a case of instruments
Publication/Creation
London (69 St. Pauls Church Yard) : Printed for and sold by Carington Bowles, [1784?]
Physical description
1 print : mezzotint, with gouache and watercolour ; platemark 35.4 x 25.4 cm
Contributors
Lettering
The London dentist. R. Dighton del.
References note
Dennis Rose, Life, times, and recorded works of Robert Dighton (1752-1814): actor, artist, and printseller and three of his artist sons portrayers of Georgian pageantry and wit, [S.l.]: D. Rose, 1981, p. 33 and p. 60 (watercolour)
David Padfield, A view of Dightons: the Dighton family, their times, caricatures and portraits, London 2007, p. 82 (watercolour, 1795; mezzotint not found)
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 583664i
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- English
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