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
"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.