Laughter & experiment [graphic].

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Title: Laughter & experiment [graphic].
Alternative Title: Laughter and experiment
Contributor: Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786, artist.
Orme, Edward, 1775-1848, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 June 1810]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
Abstract: Two men sit facing each other as the one on the right pulls on a string which has been tied around a front tooth of the man on the left, his left foot bent up and braced in the patient's left hand. The doctor with a large hooked nose laughs as the other man screams in agony
Description: Title from item.
Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier.
Plate numbered '7' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions.
Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints ; July 2008 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 16.4 x 21.1 cm, on sheet 18.8 x 25.8 cm
Language: English

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