[Frontispiece to volume one of Tristram Shandy] [graphic]

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Title: [Frontispiece to volume one of Tristram Shandy] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Frontispiece to vol. 1
Creator: Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [April 1760]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Corporal Trim stands with his back to the viewer as he reads a sermon upon Conscience. Dr. Slop sleeps in an armchair on the left beside the fireplace, his chin resting on his large belly. In the background Uncle Toby and Walter Shandy sit smoking. Behind them in the corner against the wall is a grandfather's clock and on the wall Toby's map of the fortifications of Namur. A three-cornered hat is shown on the floor in the foreground
Description: Title and state from Paulson.
Text upper left corner: Frontispiece Vol. 1.
Text below image: Vol. 2. page 128.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., August 1940; Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14.9 x 8.8 cm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Frontispieces
Engravings England London 1760
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic): Reading
Sleeping
Smoking
Subjects: Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 > Illustrations
Reading
Sleeping
Smoking
England > London > 1760
18th century
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership

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