A servant (butcher?) with his hands on his hips looks suspicously at a fashionably dressed man as the latter crosses one arm in front of his chest completing an apologetic bow and uses the other to secretly slide a package behind his back to a thrid unidentified individual penciled in outline. The inscribed caption reads: Permit me good sir to solicit your countenance. You be damned!
Description:
Title penciled in below image. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Bribes, Servants, Dandies, and British
A scene from Tristram Shandy in which Susannah stands holdings her nose with her lefthand while in her right she holds a candle over the cradle where the swandled 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 right fist at her while in his left 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 caption below image., Date of publication based on watermark from a print possibly of the same series. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 803.00.00.44+., Text following title: Vid[e] Tris. Shandy, vol. 4., Three lines of text below title: Susannah rowing one way & looking another, set fire to Dr. Slops wig, which being somewhat bushy ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and A copy in reverse of no. 5216 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, and Servants
Title from caption below image., Companion print to: The dinner : symptoms of eating and drinking., Date of publication based on watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., A reduced copy of no. 8537 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Breakfasts -- Hunts -- Guns: Fowling piece -- Male costume: Riding habit -- Yawns -- Valet., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 29.7 cm, mounted to 25 x 32 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of first initial of artist's signature and some loss of image.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: The breakfast : symptoms of drowsiness., A reduced copy of no. 8538 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Dinners -- Footmen -- Furniture -- Dinner table., and Imperfect; artist's signature mostly erased from sheet.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on that of the print from which the design was copied., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A copy in reverse of no. 6343 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Porter -- Mens costume., and Watermark: Vander Ley.
Drawings B87 no. 30 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 5
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke appears from his leanness, frogged coat, and long pigtail queue to be a Frenchman; he leans over the table in profile to the left, wearing pince-nez. His opponent watches him, standing on top-toe, his cue held over his left shoulder, his face screwed up in anxiety; he wears a bag-wig. A number of spectators look on with expressions of amusement or concern: on the right two men stand together grinning; on the left a man watches open-mouthed; behind the table a man watches with an expression of alarm, another takes cover behind him with a grin; a small boy stands beside them. In the foreground are two dogs, one, a greyhound, stands between the player's legs. On the wall behind the table is a rack of cues and two clock-faced scoring boards both pointing to the figure X. On the right is a door, on the left a small casement window. Pictures and prints decorate the wall (left to right): a print of Wilkes (bust) with two caps of liberty; a print of a nymph and satyr; a print of a man seated, three quarter length; a print of a man and woman whole-length; two framed landscapes
Description:
Title from local card catalogue. and Published stipple engraving: no. 5803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.