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
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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.
Title from British Museum catalogue., One line of quote below image: In coelum jusseris ibit., One line of text below the quote: And bid him go to Hell, to Hell he goes., Frontispiece from: Baratariana. The second ed. Dublin, 1773., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Lord Frederick North -- Allusion to John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute -- Literature: quotation from Juvenal, Satires, iii, 78.
Two women help a third woman who sits in a shallow bath tub, shower with the use of watering can. A man peeks at the scene from behind a curtain on the left. On the right, a fourth woman looks up from a tub with a look of surprise
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Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information from a closing plate in the series with intact imprint statement: The water doctor, or, hydropathyist., Seven lines of text printed on verso of sheet: The mummy state. The patient having been made a client of (Vulgo, stript of every thing, common sense not excluded) is tightly enveloped in blankets to perspire ...Plate II., and Numbered 'Plt. 1' in upper left corner from: The sure water cure.
The young Zeluco with a defiant look on his face, crushes his pet bird in his right hand; a bird cage sits on a table to his left, its door standing open. To his right, his tutor looks back at him in horror
As part of the seduction of the wife of his Portuguese neighbor, Zelcuo meets their child while his nurse takes him to a secluded shady seat and pretends to be moved by his beauty
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Title devised by cataloger. and Paper watermark: Edm [trimmed].