'Mirth, Anguish'

Maker
1. Edward Orme (b.1755, d.1848)
2. Tim Bobbin (b.1708, d.1786)
Date
04 Jun 1810
 Description
Hand-coloured etching, black and white on wove paper. The standing dentist on the left is pulling a string tied to a front tooth of a seated man. The laughing dentist as a diversion places a red hot coal in a pair of large tongs within sight of the patient who recoils to the side pushing the tongs away with his hand screaming in agony. Framed with black painted wood and glazed, twisted wire hooks at back. The image was first published in 1773 in Tim Bobbin's 'Human Passions Delineated' with accompanying poetic text.
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Object detail

Maker
Date
04 Jun 1810
Medium
etching
Measurements
(image) 16.0 x 21.0 cm
(sheet) 21.0 x 26.0 cm
(mount) 22.0 x 27.0 cm
Accession Number
HFA3114
Credit Line
Gift of Dr Dennis Feely, 2012
Inscriptions
accession number/owner's mark/inscriptions ▫ 848
Object Type
artwork
artwork/printmaking/etching
Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum Category
Photographs and Prints
Museum
Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum

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