A pair of Wirtembergs! Or the little Wiltshire dentist easing Faro's little daughter of tooth-ache, Isaac Cruikshank, 1797

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'. 6 july 1797 hand-coloured etching. Date: 1797. Dimensions: Height: 358 mm; Width: 252 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire. Collection: British Museum. A pair of Wirtembergs! Or the little Wiltshire dentist easing Faro's little daughter of tooth-ache (BM 1868,0808.6648)