Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.02.03.05.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Overthrow of Doctor Slop
Description:
Title, printmaker, artist, and publication information from lettered state in the British Museum catalogue., Early state before letters. For a later state published 3 Feb. 1773, see no. 5215 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., One of a series of prints illustrating Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from later state., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., State before title. Cf. Later state in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c., p. 79., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the later state appears., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of a print after Bunbury published in 1773. See no. 5213 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Fortifications -- Jack-boots -- Newspapers: London gazette -- Sentry boxes -- Uniforms: Grenadiers hats .
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 from Paulson., From Paulson: The plate ... appeared in the first edition published January 28, 1761., "Vol. 4 Page 112"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand on page near grouping: For these plates to Tristram Shandy, see Mr. Nichols's book 3rd edition, p. 372 & 374, 375., and On page 186 in volume 2.
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 from Paulson., From Paulson: The plate ... appeared in the second edition published May 21, 1761., Location in volume lacking in this second plate., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand on page near grouping: For these plates to Tristram Shandy, see Mr. Nichols's book 3rd edition, p. 372 & 374, 375., and On page 186 in volume 2.
Copy of the frontispiece to Laurence Sterne's '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; state with grandfather clock in the corner and tricorne hat on the floor
Description:
Title from original print on which this reversed copy is based. See Paulson., "Vol. I, page 214"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 233., and On page 186 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Jany. 14th 1780 by W. Strahan, T. Cadell, J. Dodsley, G. Robinson, & J. Murray, &c. &c.
