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1. The battle of the cataplasm [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.02.03.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene from Tristram Shandy in which Susannah stands holdings her nose with her right hand while in her left she holds a candle over the cradle where the swaddled infant Tristram lies with a plaster on his nose. She addressed the doctor with obvious fury, her mouth agape. On the left Dr. Slop raises his left fist at her while in his right he holds a cataplasm in a ladle, ready to fling at her. His hat lies at his feet, and his wig is ablaze. Obadiah stands behind him carrying in his hands a chamber pot and a bowl, a medicine bottle tucked under his arm. The two men stand before a screen. The walls of the room are hung with portraits and a mirror; a grandfather's clock showing the time as 6:15 stands against the wall behind the cradle and Susannah. Two medicine bottles sit on a table partially hidden behind the screen. In the foreground lies an over-turned chair
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 3 February 1773 by J. Bretherton. Cf. No. 5216 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., On either side of title, a quote from a scene in Vol. 4 of Tristram Shandy: Susannah rowing one way & looking another, set fire to Dr. Slop's wig, which being somewhat bushy & unctuous withal was as soon burnt as kindled ..., and J. Ruse 1799.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, 3d February 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illustrations, Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The battle of the cataplasm [graphic]
