print;
frontispiece;
satirical print
- Museum number
- Cc,1.158
- Description
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Frontispiece to Laurence Sterne, 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', 2nd ed. (R and J Dodsley: London, 1760), vol. 1 (illustrating an episode in vol. 2); Corporal Trim stands at right, reading a sermon on Conscience, seen from behind and illustrating the passage in which his posture is described with 'his knee bent, but that not violently - but so as to fall within the limits of the line of beauty'; at left Dr Slop, asleep in a chair by the fire; behind, Walter Shandy and Uncle Toby sitting and smoking, Toby's map of the fortifications at Namur above on the wall.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1760
- Dimensions
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Height: 142 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 85 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of two illustrations after Hogarth to the second edition (first London edition) of Tristram Shandy; see also Paulson (1989), cat. no. 234.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Acquisition date
- 1827 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on S,2.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Cc,1.158