The Town Tooth Drawer.
£75.00
Publisher
Published by W. Davison Alnwick
Date
C.1815
Synopsis
Popular print, social satire : depicts an elegantly attired city dentist, in frock coat and long-tailed wig, pulling the tooth from the gaping mouth of a lady seated in an armchair in a neat interior, her maid looking on in distress, echoed by a hissing cat at the dentist's feet, while a young black servant turns grinning towards the viewer.
Item Description
10.5 x 7.5 inches. Monochrome etching on paper. Good condition. Publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist. Usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures, amusing if somewhat crudely executed plates often based on better known prints. In later life he appears to have worked primarily as a pharmacist and druggist, and was recorded as a chemist and bookbinder on the 1851 census.
[Stock No. 29939]
