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A shaving machine enabling many people to be shaved at the same time. Coloured etching.

Tim Bobbin lives! : the life and times of a Lancashire legend / by Jean and Peter Bond.

A surgeon extracting a tooth. Oil painting after Gerrit Dou and Tim Bobbin.

A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.

A tooth-drawer using pincers to extract a tooth from an old woman, her husband agonizingly observes the situation. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.

A blacksmith extracting a tooth. Oil painting in the manner of John Collier, known as "Tim Bobbin".

A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal in order to be able to extract a tooth more easily. Etching by J. Collier after himself, 1773.

An operator extracting a tooth. Oil painting by a follower of Tim Bobbin.

Extraction of a tooth. Oil painting in the manner of John Collier, known as "Tim Bobbin".

A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient. Etching by J. Collier, 1773.

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Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786

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A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.

An operator extracting a tooth. Oil painting by a follower of Tim Bobbin.

Extraction of a tooth. Oil painting in the manner of John Collier, known as "Tim Bobbin".

A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient. Etching by J. Collier, 1773.

A blacksmith extracting a tooth. Oil painting in the manner of John Collier, known as "Tim Bobbin".