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Credit
Transplanting of teeth. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Transplanting of teeth.
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
- Date:
- 1787
- Reference:
- 16595i
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- Online
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced March 2022: A fashionable dentist's practice: teeth are being extracted from poor children in order to create dentures for wealthy people. Coloured lithograph after T. Rowlandson, 1787.
Description
Satirical print depiciting 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.
Physical description
1 print : transfer lithograph, with watercolour ; border 18 x 26.3 cm
Contributors
Notes
The title has been taken from wording on the object.
References note
The original is in: British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1938, no. 7766
Richardson, R., 1999. Transplanting teeth. The Lancet, 354 (9191), p. 1740.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 16595i
Reproduction note
The print is in reverse, including lettering, from the original - see Wellcome Library catalogue record number 16589i
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