[Rowlandson (Thomas)] after Henry Bunbury.

a social satire described by Joseph Grego in his ‘Rowlandson the Caricturist’ as depicting the ‘consulting room and operating surgery of certain rustic practitioners who combine the twin professions of dentists and pedicures’, as on the right one character leans in to extract a tooth by bracing his knee agains his patient’s chest and pulling with all his might, a hammer and a pair of pliers poking out of his pocket, while on the left his colleague tries to remove a bunion from the foot of a gentleman, who is seated in a chair with his manservant standing to one side, the amateur chiropodist gripping his patient’s foot between his legs, with a long needle clenched between his teeth, and needless to say both patients are writhing in agony and this application of anything but lightness of touch,

original hand-coloured etching, 155 x 230 mm. (6 1/8 x 9 in), inscribed in the plate ‘H. Bunbury del.’, lower right, trimmed on or just within the platemark, a short tear in the lower right corner, slight browning and spotting, [not in BM Satires],