Illustration for scene in which Tristam is baptized

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Title: Illustration for scene in which Tristam is baptized
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1760s?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Entering from the left, Walter Shandy, having had trouble pulling on his pants, arrives too late to prevent the curate from baptizing his newborn son with the hated name of Tristram
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
For discussion of the original print see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 233.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 16.5 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Frontispieces
Engravings England London 1760
Material: engraving ; and wove 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

Access: Public
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