Transplanting of Teeth
Thomas Rowlandson British
Publisher John Harris British
Not on view
Dentists extract teeth from poor people and insert them into the jaws of well-to-do patients. At center, a young chimney-sweep is about to have a tooth pulled, and a lady next to him has just endured an extraction and is about to receive a transplantation. At right a good-looking young lady clenches her fists as a spectacled dentist places his instrument in her mouth. Behind the group a man in uniform inspects his mouth with a mirror and at left, a ragged boy and girl leave the room in pain, with the girl holding a coin.
