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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.

A man vomits into a bowl as his companion lifts his wig and steadies the bowl. Coloured etching by T. Sandars, 1773, after J. Collier.

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

A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.

One man sits soundly sleeping as his drunken companion offers him another drink. Etching by T. Sandars, 1773, after J. Collier.

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".