A tooth-drawer examining the tooth of a child. Engraving by C. Lewis after G. Dou.

  • Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899]
Reference:
16461i
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A tooth-drawer examining the tooth of a child. Engraving by C. Lewis after G. Dou. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

"A surgeon operating on a girl's mouth. M.97. At an arched window a young surgeon operates on the mouth of a girl who sits on an arm-chair to the right. She seeks to prevent him with her right hand. On the window-ledge are a brasss basin, a case of instruments, and a water-bottle. Above are a curtain and a sort of chandelier, with barbers' basins suspended from it. In the left background an old woman sits at a window. Panel, 13 inches by 11 inches, with rounded top. Not in Lormier's possession [Willem Lormier (1682-1758) The Hague] as Martin supposes. Engraved by Lewis in the Airlie Gallery. Sale, Cornelius Wittert, Rotterdam, April 11, 1731, no. 27 (1130 florins) "--Hofstede de Groot, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

[between 1800 and 1899]

Physical description

1 print : etching with stipple ; image 11.6 x 7.8 cm

Contributors

Lettering

G. Dow. Cha. G. Lewis sculpt.

Edition

[Without stamp "Airlie Gallery" immediately below the image].

References note

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters, vol. I, London 1908, p. 394, no. 146 (the painting by Dou)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 44621i
Wellcome Collection 16461i

Reproduction note

After a painting by Dou. Some impressions of this print have a stamp immediately below the image ""Airlie Gallery": this is presumably either the name of the collection in which the paintings existed (Earls of Airlie at Cortachy Castle, Angus?) or the name of the series of prints after them. The website of the RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis, accessed 20 January 2020, gives the following provenance for the painting: Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam; John Hoogsteder, The Hague, to 1983; private collection, Brugge (Belgium), 1983

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