The Ludicrous Operator, or Blacksmith turn'd Tooth Drawer

The Ludicrous Operator, or Blacksmith turn'd Tooth Drawer

(For description and further comment, see impression of BM Sat. 8051: 1935,0522.1.176)
Mezzotint
Height: Height: 352 millimetres
Width: Width: 248 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered below the image with the title, four lines of verse in two columns 'Why squeeze your Hat, and seize my Cap, ... I'm a Licentiate: Not a Quack.' and 'Designed by J. Harris & Improved by drawings after the Life of J. Dixon. // Published according to Act of Parliament A.D. 1768. // Dixon fecit. // Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill, London.'

Print made by: John Dixon
After: John Harris ((?))
Published by: John Bowles

Published in: London (England)
Europe: British Isles: England: London (England)

1768

BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (8051)
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed)
Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (undescribed)

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