The interior of a coffee-house, the customers, with one exception, deeply interested and dismayed at the news in a 'Gazette Extraordinary'. On each side of the room is an oblong table flanked by wooden settees. Between the tables and in the center of the design three men stand, one of whom reads from a 'Gazette Extraordinary'. His two companions look at him with scowling attention; one, his hat under his arm, has both hands thrust deep into the pockets of his coat; the other holds his forehead, from which his wig has been pushed back. A dog gazes up at them. At the table on the left a man sits in full face gaping with dismay, his hands rest on the table grasping his knife and fork. Two men sit on opposite sides of the table on the right; one holds a glass in his left hand, while he looks up at the group with the newspaper. His vis-à-vis has turned sideways, his hands on his knees, with an expression of melancholy alarm. Behind him, one hand on the back of the settle, stands John Wilkes, conspicuous by his squint and his characteristic wig; he holds a glass of wine and frowns. At his side is a man leaning back asleep. -British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in ink below image., Artist's signature and date inscribed in ink in the artist's hand below image., Published etching after this drawing described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5923., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Newspapers, Debates, and Discussions
Title from caption below image., Attribution to Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., Early state. For reissue with additional numbering, see p. 39 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Plate numbered "10" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. July 1st, 1771, by MDarly 39 Strand
A scene from Tristram Shandy in which Susannah stands holdings her nose with her lefthand while in her right she holds a candle over the cradle where the swandled 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 right fist at her while in his left 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 caption below image., Date of publication based on watermark from a print possibly of the same series. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 803.00.00.44+., Text following title: Vid[e] Tris. Shandy, vol. 4., Three lines of text below title: Susannah rowing one way & looking another, set fire to Dr. Slops wig, which being somewhat bushy ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A copy in reverse of no. 5216 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Trimmed within plate marks to 24.0 x 65.0 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, and Servants
A scene from Tristram Shandy in which Susannah stands holdings her nose with her lefthand while in her right she holds a candle over the cradle where the swandled 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 right fist at her while in his left 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 caption below image., Date of publication based on watermark from a print possibly of the same series. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 803.00.00.44+., Text following title: Vid[e] Tris. Shandy, vol. 4., Three lines of text below title: Susannah rowing one way & looking another, set fire to Dr. Slops wig, which being somewhat bushy ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and A copy in reverse of no. 5216 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, and Servants
Title from caption below image., Companion print to: The dinner : symptoms of eating and drinking., Date of publication based on watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., A reduced copy of no. 8537 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Breakfasts -- Hunts -- Guns: Fowling piece -- Male costume: Riding habit -- Yawns -- Valet., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 29.7 cm, mounted to 25 x 32 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of first initial of artist's signature and some loss of image.
Title from caption below image., Four lines of prose below image, two on either side of title: May all the angels & archangels, principalities & powers & all the heavenly armys curse & damn him ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A later, reversed copy of no. 5214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne -- Military uniforms -- Maps: Flanders -- Male costume: Dressing gown and night cap -- Man-servant -- Male headdress: Pig-tail -- Furniture: Ladder-back chairs -- Household utensils: Brooms -- Medical: Physicians -- Dr. Slop.
Title from caption below image., Four lines of prose below image, two on either side of title: May all the angels & archangels, principalities & powers & all the heavenly armys curse & damn him ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A later, reversed copy of no. 5214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne -- Military uniforms -- Maps: Flanders -- Male costume: Dressing gown and night cap -- Man-servant -- Male headdress: Pig-tail -- Furniture: Ladder-back chairs -- Household utensils: Brooms -- Medical: Physicians -- Dr. Slop., 1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 24 x 33.7 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature partially erased from lower left corner., and Shading added in pencil to lower part of design.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: The breakfast : symptoms of drowsiness., A reduced copy of no. 8538 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Dinners -- Footmen -- Furniture -- Dinner table., and Imperfect; artist's signature mostly erased from sheet.
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Early state. For reissue with additional numbering, see p. 38 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Plate numbered "1" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. Aprl. 25th, 1771, by MDarly (39) Strand
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Reissue with additional numbering; see p. 38 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5. For earlier state lacking volume numbering, see no. 4668 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., and Plate from vol. 1 of a portfolio of prints with an engraved t.p.: Darly, M. 24 Caricatures by several ladies, gentlemen, artists &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, Novr. 1, 1771.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. Aprl. 25th, 1771, by MDarly (39) Strand
