It's a Gas! Dentistry & Cartoons

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Eric Löbbecke: Hewson: The tax fairy, 1991 artwork for cartoon published in The Weekend Australian, 19–20 October 1991, p. 27 watercolour and ink on paper image 32 × 27 cm. Private collection.

Joseph Ferdinand Keppler: Rotten to the core, 1883 published in Puck (New York), 7 November 1883 full-colour lithograph image 29 × 21 cm sheet 32 × 23 cm. Private collection.

André Gill, engraved by Yves and Barret Eau Bazana, 1877 published in La Lune Rousse (Paris), 7 October 1877, p. 3 hand-coloured wood engraving sheet 33 × 48 cm. Private collection.

Pete Dredge: Flying dentist, 1989 published in Punch (London), 10 February 1989 halftone print 12 × 20 cm. Private collection.

William Ellis Green ‘WEG’: N-N-NEXT PLEASE …!, 1976 published in The Herald, 3 July 1976, p. 2 ink and colour wash on paper image 31 × 40 cm sheet 33 × 60 cm. Private collection. © Reproduced courtesy of Weg Art www.weg

Tom Bell: Getting his teeth, 1923 published in Aussie: The Cheerful Monthly (Sydney), 15 May 1923 colour halftone image 23 × 19.5 cm sheet 27.5 × 22 cm. Private collection.

Honoré Daumier: Chez le dentiste, 1847 No. 45 from series Les bons bourgeois, published in Le Charivari (Paris), 4 May 1847 lithograph image 31 × 23 cm. Private collection.

Adriaen Van de Venne: On the sight of a person having a tooth pulled, 1657, published 1660 in Jacob Cats, Op Voorvallende Gelegentheden, copper line engraving image 10.5 × 14 cm sheet 44 × 27.5 cm. Private collection.

Albert Tucker: Funny. He was here only a moment ago, 1945, published in The Australasian National Illustrated Weekly, image 32 × 22 cm. Private collection. © The estate of Barbara Tucker. Courtesy of Sotheby’s Australia.

Lucas Van Leyden: The dentist, 1523, engraving, sheet and image 11.5 × 7.5 cm. 1959.3194, gift of Dr J Orde Poynton, 1959, Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne.