Dentist with Narcissi

oil painting

three-quarter length oil portrait of Sir John Tomes, First President of the BDA. Framed in a Victorian moulded gilt gesso frame. The painting's title is 'Dentist with Narcissi'
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oil painting

oil on canvas portrait of Lilian Lindsay. Painted by Kathleen Williams in 1959.
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Ludicrous Operator or blacksmith turn'd tooth drawer

mezzotint

mezzotint depicting an extraction of a peasant's only remaining tooth with a blacksmith's oversized pair of forceps. There is a rhyme beneath the mezzotint which reads 'Why squeeze your Hat and Seize my Cap As if you dreaded some Mishap?- Keep not your Spririts on the Rack I'm a Licentiate, Not a quack'.
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print

'Transplanting of Teeth' by Thomas Rowlandson. Framed, hand coloured engraving on paper. Published by Wm Holland in 1790.
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jewellery

Gold pin with two infant teeth on gold chains.
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