Transplanting of Teeth
John Harris|Thomas Rowlandson
1787 · Hand-colored etching and aquatint; early state · Drawings and Prints
Dentists extract teeth from poor people and insert them into the jaws of well-to-do patients. At center, a young chimney-sweep is about to have a tooth pulled, and a lady next to him has just endured an extraction and is about to receive a transplantation. At right a good-looking young lady clenches her fists as a spectacled dentist places his instrument in her mouth. Behind the group a man in uniform inspects his mouth with a mirror and at left, a ragged boy and girl leave the room in pain, with the girl holding a coin.
- Artist
- John Harris|Thomas Rowlandson
- Date
- 1787
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching and aquatint; early state
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959