Title devised by curator., From: Das Leben und die Meinungen des Tristram Shandy: Karl Ernst Bohn, Berlin, 1776., Top inscription: VIII. ; VI. Th. pag.11., Sheet trimmed through top inscription., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to vol. 1
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., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above this print and another version listed above: Tristram Shandy; 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. Sheet trimmed to: 14.7 x 8.7 cm.
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
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to vol. 1
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Text upper left corner: Frontispiece Vol. 1., Text below image: Vol. 2. page 128., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to vol. 1
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, date and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: Given me by Mr. Robert Dodsley. Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above this print and another version listed below: Tristram Shandy. Ms. note in pencil 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.
A group of drawings that illustrate select scenes from Laurence Sterne's novel The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. The drawings vary in level of detail and completeness; one is a slight pencil sketch, two are more detailed drawings in pen and ink over pencil, and three are elaborate drawings in ink and wash. The drawings are bound in as either the frontispiece or before the frontispiece, one in each of the six volumes of the eighth edition of the work. Several of the compositions were later engraved, presumably from larger designs by Bunbury
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., The drawings are unsigned, and only one has a title written at the bottom., Bound in H.W. Bunbury's copy of: Sterne, L. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770., In slipcase., and With H.W. Bunbury's original drawings (cataloged separately) bound in; also with verses in unidentified hand on end-papers of v. 4.
Laurence Sterne stands on the left facing Death who has just come in the door (right) carrying an hourglass and carrying a walking stick. On the wall behind him is a map of the fortifications of Namur and on the table by his side, a statue of Diana of the Ephesians under a glass dome (bell glass) as well as a feather pen in an ink stand. Below the table is a jackboot. Between the two columns of verse below the image in a cartouche is a butterfly fluttering over a torch, a reference to the soul
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Date from manuscript note in Horace Walpole's hand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., Five lines from Tristam Shandy below image in English and Italian, etched below image: and when Death himself knocked at my door, ye had him come again, and in so gay a tone, of careless indifference, did ye doit, that he, doubted of his commission. There must certainly be some mistake in thy matter, quoth he ..., In lower left corner: Price half-crown., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Aristotle's works -- Ovid -- A sentimental journey by Laurence Sterne -- Emblems: mundane egg -- Reference to plagiary -- Machine for tearing books., and Annotated by Horace Walpole below plate line: Sterne, author of Tristam Shandy, done at Florence.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 and Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Death, Hourglasses, Skeletons, and Staffs (Sticks)
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 91. Bunbury album.
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 later state., Artist and printmaker from signatures on later state: HWBunbury delin. ; J. Bretherton f., Proof state, before any lettering and before additional shading added to the design. For the lettered state, see no. 5216 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Publisher and date of publication inferred from imprint statement on later state., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Cataplasm -- 'Dr. Slop' -- Dishes: Bowls -- Lighting: Long handle candlesticks -- Domestic service: Maid -- Furniture: Hall clock -- Folding screen., and Mounted on page 91 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
J. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, Servants, and Women domestics
Volume 1, page 33. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man on horseback in a street with his arms around two women, one of whom is crying at right, an old lady sat in profile in the foreground holding a bunch of flowers and a dog drinking from a fountain behind, a man watching the farewell with crossed arms at left, a church building behind a high wall before which a carriage is waiting behind; circular design, after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text on later state., State before title and verses added below image. For the final state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1872,0511.128., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 33 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink below image: Departure of La Fleur from Montreuil in Sterne's Sentimental Journey.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 28th, 1781, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
"A man on horseback in a street with his arms around two women, one of whom is crying at right, an old lady sat in profile in the foreground holding a bunch of flowers and a dog drinking from a fountain behind, a man watching the farewell with crossed arms at left, a church building behind a high wall before which a carriage is waiting behind; circular design, after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text on later state., Artist and printmaker from text on later state: H. Bunbury Esqr. delint. ; engraved by T. Watson., Early state, before any lettering. For the final lettered state, published 28 May 1781 by Watson & Dickinson, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1872,0511.128., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 23 of: Bunbury album.
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.
