Easing the Toothach

Item

Framed colored print. A man in regency-era clothes sits in a chair and pulls off the dentist's wig while the dentist pulls his tooth with an instrument.
Title
Easing the Toothach
Description
A tooth-puller extracts a tooth while the seated patient is pulling off dentist's wig. Colored pen drawing by A.G. 1821, after J. Gillray, 1796
Creator
Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Date
1821
Format
20.4cm x 27.3cm
Subject
Tooth extraction
Dentist and patient
Type
lithograph
Tag
Caricature
Dentists and Dentistry
Tooth extraction
Item sets
Medicine in Art