Hob and stage doctor [graphic].

Description

Title: Hob and stage doctor [graphic].
Contributor: Davison, William, 1780-1858, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1812 and 1817]
Publication Place: Alnwick and England Alnwick
Publisher: Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Abstract: On a stage a man in a hat extracts a tooth from a patient as a clown taunts him; the audience on three sides of the stage look on with looks of horror or amusement
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication date from Isaac.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: From the Ian Robertson Collection. John Turton; September 2019.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 16.9 x 23.8 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1812
Etchings England Alnwick 1812
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Teeth
Extraction
Dentistry
Audiences
Clowns
Pain
Subjects: Teeth > Extraction
Dentistry
Audiences
Clowns
Pain
England > 1812
England > Alnwick > 1812

Access: Public
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