[Mills (Alfred) Attributed to.]

a light social satire depicting a society dentist extracting a tooth from the mouth of a distressed young lady in an elegant drawing room, while two uniformed attendants and a young gentleman hide their sniggers and smirks at the comic verse below that, for all the dentist’s vast wealth, ‘Like many more twixt North and South, He does but live from Hand to Mouth’,

original hand-coloured etching, 175 x 215 mm. (6 7/8 x 8 1/2 in), trimmed on or just within the platemark, but outside the image and all text, slight browning and spotting, [BM Satires not described],