- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.02.03.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Obadiah (left) mounted on the coach-horse at full gallop attempts to pull up his horse, leaning back in the saddle, his cap in his right hand. On the ground is Dr. Slop's pony. Behind the pony on the right. Dr. Slop lies on his back; a spotted dog prances over him. The doctor lies under a sign-post terminating in a hand pointing "To Shandy Hall". Behind the coach-horse, which is wearing blinkers, is the angle of a high garden wall, in the distance (right) is a church spire among trees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Overthrow of Doctor Slop
- Description:
- Title etched 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. 5215 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Four lines of text below image, two on either side of title: "When Obadiah & his coach horse turn'd the corner rapid, furious, pop, full upon him ..." Vide vol. 1st, Tristram Shandy., One of a series of prints illustrating Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy., and Watermark.
- 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, Horseback riding, Accidents, Dogs, and Traffic signs & signals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The overthrow of Dr. Slop [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 April 1772]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 41. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the center of a room Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim kneel on a chair and on floor, respectively, focusing their attention on a table to the right on which a rifle is balanced with the help of books, dishes, mops and a chamber pot. The rifle, pointed at a map of Flanders hanging behind them on the wall, is connected to Uncle Toby's chair with a long string. Uncle Toby is pointing to the contraption with a pistol in his left hand; in his right he holds a broom or a duster. Corporal Trim's pistol lies on the floor. A small dog under the table barks at them. Books and maps of fortifications are scattered on the floor in the foreground, among them a large sheet of paper inscribed, "Intergl [sic] siege, 2 quartos, 2 folios, 1 chamberp[ot], 14 rank & file, 1 mop. Trim lost an eye lash." A few brooms are leaning against the wall on extreme left, behind them is a folding screen. Above it hangs a portrait of a man with a 17th-century hairstyle, dressed in armor
- Description:
- Title etched below image; letter "Z" in "Zoom" is etched backwards., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Printmaker John Williams later adopted the pseudonym Anthony Pasquin., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second of two plates on leaf 41., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. accorg. to act April 1st, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illustrations, Interiors, Firearms, Brooms & brushes, Dogs, and Chamber pots
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The siege of Bergem op Zoom [graphic]
- Creator:
- Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 April 1772]
- Call Number:
- 772.04.01.03
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 41. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the center of a room Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim kneel on a chair and on floor, respectively, focusing their attention on a table to the right on which a rifle is balanced with the help of books, dishes, mops and a chamber pot. The rifle, pointed at a map of Flanders hanging behind them on the wall, is connected to Uncle Toby's chair with a long string. Uncle Toby is pointing to the contraption with a pistol in his left hand; in his right he holds a broom or a duster. Corporal Trim's pistol lies on the floor. A small dog under the table barks at them. Books and maps of fortifications are scattered on the floor in the foreground, among them a large sheet of paper inscribed, "Intergl [sic] siege, 2 quartos, 2 folios, 1 chamberp[ot], 14 rank & file, 1 mop. Trim lost an eye lash." A few brooms are leaning against the wall on extreme left, behind them is a folding screen. Above it hangs a portrait of a man with a 17th-century hairstyle, dressed in armor
- Description:
- Title etched below image; letter "Z" in "Zoom" is etched backwards., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Printmaker John Williams later adopted the pseudonym Anthony Pasquin., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg bend, partially cut off.
- Publisher:
- Pub. accorg. to act April 1st, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illustrations, Interiors, Firearms, Brooms & brushes, Dogs, and Chamber pots
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The siege of Bergem op Zoom [graphic]