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A Pair of Wirtembergs! Or the Little Wiltshire Dentist Easing Faro's Little Daughter of Tooth-ache, 06 July 1797

 Item — Box: LF104/4 Box 1
Reference code: LF104/4/66

Scope and Contents

By Isaac Cruikshank. Lady Buckinghamshire, enormously stout, leans back terrified in an arm-chair (left); an almost equally fat dentist (? Brewer) stands over her, holding her chin, an instrument in his right hand. He says: "Open your mouth wide & I'll pluck un out for your Ladyship in half the time the Frenchman would be talking about un". Her left arm and left leg are raised, so that her foot is on a level with her chin; she screams: "Stop, give me fair play Surely you do not take me for a Pidgeon! no, no but I have Plucked many a one." On the glass panels of a door (right) is the inscription : 'Brewers Trew English Tooth Powder made from pure British Herbs' Description from the British Museum.

Dates

  • Creation: 06 July 1797

Conditions Governing Access

Available by appointment in our Reading Room

Extent

1 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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