print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.3865
- Title
- Object: Le Patissier
- Description
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Yorick addressing a aged military veteran reduced to being a street-seller in Versailles of pastries, an episode from Laurence Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey, the older man wears an apron and carries a covered basket slung in front of him over his shoulders, one hand at his breast, indicating the Chevalier de St Louis on a ribbon which he wears; a coach in the background to right; in an oval, retouched state, burin added in the eyes and lips. 1775
Mezzotint printed in brown ink
- Production date
- 1775
- Dimensions
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Height: 286 millimetres (trimmed to oval)
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Width: 243 millimetres (trimmed to oval)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- David Solkin (email Feb 2024): This, like the impression of an earlier state also in the BM, is entitled 'Le Patissier', and is indeed an illustration to Sterne's Sentimental Journey. Smith exhibited a print bearing this title at the Society of Artists in 1775 (226); the impression in the Huntington Library identifies the artist as Andreas van Rymsdyk and bears the publication date 10 April 1775 (publ. by Smith and Thomas Bradshaw). The BM's record to the contrary, the print is in D'Oench's catalogue raisonne, no.58.
For an earlier state, see 2010,7081.3864
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A Sentimental Journey
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.3865
