Transplanting of teeth.

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.

Date:: 1787

Reference:: 16596i

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: A fashionable dentist's practice where teeth are being extracted from poor children in order to create dentures for wealthy people. Reproduction of an aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1787.

At top of mount: The dental service

Description

Satirical print by Thomas Rowlandson 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

T. Rowlandson, 1787.

London (50 Oxford Street) : Wm. Holland, 1790.

Physical description

1 print : black and white photomechanical reproduction ; image 13.3 x 19.5 cm

Contributors

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.

Notes

The title has been taken from wording on the object.

References note

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 16596i

Reproduction note

"Reproduced by permission from an aquatint. In John Wessler's collection, Stockholm."