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Description: | A satire of figures in eighteenth-century costume, painted in the nineteenth-century, showing a tooth extraction. Dentists, like doctors, were often seen as quacks and tooth pulling was often a fairground attraction. This follows the popular seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish tradition of scenes from everyday life in which the profession of medicine and dentistry was often lampooned. The work may be after the Flemish seventeenth-century artist, David Teniers I who is known for his scenes of this subject. | Subjects: | figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Flemish School Æ Attributed to after Previously attributed to after Hogarth, William (English painter and engraver, 1697-1764) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8338... | Go to resource |
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