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1.
Eccentricities, monstrosities, or, Bell's and beau's of 1799 [graphic].

Creator:
Ansell, Charles, 1752- printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 July 1799]
Call Number:
799.07.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Bell's and beau's of 1799 and Belles and beaus of 1799
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: high-waisted transparent dresses, 1799 -- Bonnets -- Parasols -- Male dress: tasselled boots -- Jean de Bry coat -- Kensington Gardens? -- Eyeglasses: quizzing glass.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1st, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Eccentricities, monstrosities, or, Bell's and beau's of 1799 [graphic].

2.
Pizzaro a new play, or, The Drury-Lane masquerade [graphic].

Creator:
Ansell, Charles, 1752- printmaker
Published / Created:
[11 June 1799]
Call Number:
799.06.11.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Sheridan, fat and grotesque, dressed as Pizarro, strides to the front of the royal box, followed by the King and Queen in Court dress. He holds out a guttering candle in each hand and shouts towards the stage: "Stand by there, move that Stone out of the Way hollo Music there play God Save the King d'ye hear take care Sire mind that Step, louder there Music make room for the best of Kings & wisest of Sovereigns! Encore." The King says to the bejewelled Queen: "No! no! no Jacobins here all Loyal all Loyal, Charming Man the Author eh! charming Man, never saw him in such a good light before." Three princesses follow; one says: "bless me I never saw that General at Court". Behind are two princes in uniform with gorgets, evidently the Dukes of York and Cumberland. On the floor by Sheridan are two papers: 'Maidstone Loyalty' [see British Museum Satires No. 9245, &c], and '[Tomorr]ow Evening performed a new play called the Loyal Author to which will be added a Peep behind the Curtain Vivan[t] Rex et Regina'. The curtain is down; on the proscenium, replacing the usual 'Veluti in Speculum', is 'Anti Jacobin House'. Two men stand in the pit, waving their hats towards the royal box; one is Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pizarro a new play, or, The Drury-Lane masquerade and Drury-Lane masquerade
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "N" in "New" is etched backwards., Tentative attribution to Ansell from the British Museum catalogue., Attributed to Charles Williams in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Theatrical costume: Spanish don -- Gorgets -- Songs: God Save the King -- Anti-Jacobin House -- Queen Charlotte's jewels -- Female dress: Queen Charlotte's dress., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 28 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 11th, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Jacobins, Theaters, Interiors, Costumes, Stages (Platforms), Candles, Jewelry, and Military uniforms
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Pizzaro a new play, or, The Drury-Lane masquerade [graphic].

3.
The ghost [graphic].

Creator:
Ansell, Charles, 1752- printmaker
Published / Created:
[15 May 1799]
Call Number:
799.05.15.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Ghosts -- Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: canopy bed with ornamental bedposts -- Nightstand -- Wine glasses -- Glass: wine bottles -- Wine: burgundy -- Chamberpot -- Pocket watch -- Male dress: nightcap -- Miss Gubbins (fl. 1799)., From Minto Wilson collection, with his stamp on verso., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 15, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The ghost [graphic].

4.
The virgin shape warehouse [graphic].

Creator:
Ansell, Charles, 1752- printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 September 1799]
Call Number:
799.09.01.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A show-room in which ladies are being fitted with various types of underclothing, specimens of which hang from the walls. An elderly man of quasi-clerical appearance fits a very fat lady with knickerbockers and braces; he looks over his shoulder at the spectator; from his pocket issues a roll of 'Complieations'. She is the central figure and regards herself with admiration in an ornate wall-mirror which reflects her face. Her stockings are held up by cords issuing from a disk on each hip. A lady and little girl (left) walk eagerly into the room. A shopman offers two false breasts to a wizened knock-kneed hag wearing knickerbockers. On the right a complacent lady in knickerbockers is having her suspenders fastened by a kneeling shopman. Another, seated on a chair, pulls on knickerbockers; other bulky garments to tie at the knee hang on the wall (left). On a shelf are wigs on stands (see BMSat 9313, &c), and from it hang garments having some resemblance to the modern brassiere (or soutien-gorge) to which braces are attached. There are also suspenders. Beneath the design: 'Dr Trussup takes the liberty to acquaint the Ladies, that he has by dint of intense Study, Astronomical . . . [&c. &c] Calculations, Discovered an immense variety, of Convenient, Comfortable, and Captivating Articles for the Ladies, first, his warm & well contrived Drawers, which will in all weathers, keep warm . ... in spite of the rage for thin covering, they are made of flannell, Cotton, fleecy hose & various other commodities . . . Dr Trussupp has from much observation and reflection, prepared commodious Spring Garters [ ? suspenders] . . . . without that banefull ligatue above the Knee, which makes the Ancle so inelligantly thick & Clumsy, also his wonder-full Wigs . . . but above all, his favourite & accommodating Circassian Vests, alias Bosom Friends, which permits free respiration, prevents all pressure on the chest, raises the languid Breast to the appearance of a Juvenile heaving Bosom. . . . NB resolves all sorts of lawful & unlawful Questions .... Casts Nativeties, and in short is the only Man in existance, caperble [sic] of treating on all Subjects in the Habitable World.'"-British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Three columns of text below image: Chevr. [sic] Trussup takes the liberty to acquaint the ladies that he has by dint of intense study, astronomical, geographycal, clerical ..., Cf. No. 9456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: poking hat --
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1st, 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Trusler, John, 1735-1820
Subject (Topic):
Breasts, Clothing & dress, Hats, Lingerie, Mirrors, Stores & shops, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The virgin shape warehouse [graphic].

5.
A tête à tete [graphic]

Creator:
Blunt, E., artist
Published / Created:
March 20, 1799.
Call Number:
799.03.20.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent., Text above image: Attitude gratitude mum round about puff em out mum., Text below image: Poor Sappho; what a taste is thine., Four lines of verse below title: Sound the trumpet, beat the drum, Nancy's this day fifty four, we wont dispute a few years more., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Celebrations -- Singing -- Songs: sheet music -- Glass: decanter -- Wine glasses -- Pets: dog -- Furniture: sofa -- Furnishings: carpet., and Watermark: E & C T Russell 1797.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A tête à tete [graphic]

6.
A militia meeting [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 May 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on volunteers: an officer and another man sit at a table while a soldier presents two potential - but unprepossessing - recruits, the second man shabbily dressed; behind them a large dog menaces a smaller one; on the wall a map and a portrait of a general."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 2 January 1773 by J. Bretherton. Cf. No. 4759 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge leaving thread margin., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1795., and Embossed stamp of publisher in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 23 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Dogs, and Maps
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A militia meeting [graphic]

7.
A tour to foreign parts [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.05++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing large wooden shoes stuffed with wool who holds out a menu; beside the innkeeper a positllion holding a whip climbs out of his large boots On the right, a fat servant carries two bottles of wine and four books; behind him another postillion drives the coach with two horses towards the right. In the background, a woman can be seen through the archway of the inn standing on a bench and reaching up to clip the wings of a cockerel; a door beside the arch, lettered, "Bon Chere icy chez La Grenouille / Traiteur", is open to reveal a ladder up which a cook has climbed in order to catch three cats running along a wall; he holds a knife in his hand. An image of a young Bacchus seated on a barrel has been chalked on the wall; a dog jumps up towards it. Beyond the wall is the roof of a cottage, a church tower and a cottage with a niche with a statue of a saint."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print previously published 11 March 1778. Cf. No. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Temporary local subject terms: Tutor -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Literature: Chesterfield's letters -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to foreign parts [graphic]

8.
Billiards [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 23, 1799.
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"One corner of a billiard-table is visible, the rest being cut off by the right, margin of the print. A player, in profile to the right, holds up with exaggerated care a cue in front of a ball lying near the corner. He wears a long pigtail queue, on the back of his coat is a large ribbon bow or cockade to which a key is attached. A number of spectators stand round watching intently: of two behind the player, one resembles a footman. Two others stand behind the corner of the table, one wearing a hat like that of a coachman; two others stand on the right behind the table. They are probably all men-servants. The wall behind is papered or stencilled in a pattern of horizontal lines and spots. On it are a rack of cues, the "[Rules of the Ga]me [of Billia]rds", three framed pictures: (a horse-race, a duel, and an oval portrait) and what appears to be a satirical print."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker from signature on earlier state., Reissue, with different imprint statement and lacking printmaker's signature, of a print originally published 27 January 1781. Cf. No. 5913 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Servants, and Pictures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Billiards [graphic]

9.
Billiards [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 23, 1799.
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.01+ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"One corner of a billiard-table is visible, the rest being cut off by the right, margin of the print. A player, in profile to the right, holds up with exaggerated care a cue in front of a ball lying near the corner. He wears a long pigtail queue, on the back of his coat is a large ribbon bow or cockade to which a key is attached. A number of spectators stand round watching intently: of two behind the player, one resembles a footman. Two others stand behind the corner of the table, one wearing a hat like that of a coachman; two others stand on the right behind the table. They are probably all men-servants. The wall behind is papered or stencilled in a pattern of horizontal lines and spots. On it are a rack of cues, the "[Rules of the Ga]me [of Billia]rds", three framed pictures: (a horse-race, a duel, and an oval portrait) and what appears to be a satirical print."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker from signature on earlier state., Reissue, with different imprint statement and lacking printmaker's signature, of a print originally published 27 January 1781. Cf. No. 5913 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., 1 print : etching, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 294 x 387 mm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges and artist's signature erased from sheet., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Servants, and Pictures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Billiards [graphic]

10.
Damn Mambrino [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.14.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on betting on horses: a fat man seated in a chair looks angrily to right, a dog sits beside him."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Reissue, with imprint statement added, of a print originally published circa 1779. Cf. No. 4731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: Edmeads & Pine.
Publisher:
Publishd. Feb. 14, 1799, by John Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Anger, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Damn Mambrino [graphic]

11.
Englishman at Paris, 1767 [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 Feb. 1782. Cf. no. 4185 in v. 4 and see p. 658 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Cabriolet -- Trades: Hairdresser -- Domestic service: Footman -- Frenchmen -- French tailors -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Englishman at Paris, 1767 [graphic]

12.
Every sous begad! [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.14.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 10 June 1774. Cf. no. 4720 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: 1804.
Publisher:
Publishd. Feb. 14, 1799, by John Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Every sous begad! [graphic]

13.
Moses [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout, complacent-looking man rides a small horse in profile to the left. He has a very bad seat and is pulling hard on the curb; the animal puts down its head. A servant on a rough-looking pony canters behind him, carrying a basket of hay and a triangular box or package (perhaps his master's hat-box) under his left arm. The scene is a country road, with a signpost (left) pointing 'To Hackney, To Isling[ton'], and (down a turning on the right of the riders) to 'Shoredi[tch]'. The post stresses the idea conveyed in the drawing, that this is a citizen riding to or from his country-box in the suburbs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 Jan. 1783. Cf. no. 6339 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Original imprint statement has been mostly burnished from plate but is still faintly visible below image in lower right., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Horseback riding, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Moses [graphic]

14.
Symptoms of rearing [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly country parson, in profile to the right, on a horse which rears almost vertically, he clasps the animal round the neck, and is seated on his hind-quarters, having lost his stirrups and slipped from the saddle. His whip flies through the air behind him, his coat-tails fly out, and the sheets of his sermon inscribed 'IOB' protrude from his pocket. A small dog (left) rushing towards the animal's hind-legs and barking furiously appears to have caused the 'symptoms of rearing'. The parish clerk, with two large volumes under his arm, beside the horse, looks over his right shoulder and stoops or runs to escape being trampled on. Trees and a church steeple are indicated in the background (right). A similar subject to British Museum Satires Nos. 5914-17, also by Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 January 1783. Cf. No. 6340 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Original imprint statement has been mostly burnished from plate but is still faintly visible below image., and Watermark: J. Ruse.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Dogs, and Books
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of rearing [graphic]

15.
The Easter hunt at Epping Forest [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury Drawer 799.03.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption running along the bottom of the three plates., Reissue, with title and imprint statement added, of a print probably first published in 1785. For earlier state lacking title and imprint, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563., A single design on three plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1799, by J. Harris, No. 3, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Easter hunt at Epping Forest [graphic]

16.
The Easter hunt at Epping Forest [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury Drawer 799.03.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption running along the bottom of the three plates., Reissue, with title and imprint statement added, of a print probably first published in 1785. For earlier state lacking title and imprint, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563., A single design on three plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1799, by J. Harris, No. 3, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Easter hunt at Epping Forest [graphic]

17.
The Easter hunt at Epping Forest [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury Drawer 799.03.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption running along the bottom of the three plates., Reissue, with title and imprint statement added, of a print probably first published in 1785. For earlier state lacking title and imprint, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563., A single design on three plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1799, by J. Harris, No. 3, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Easter hunt at Epping Forest [graphic]

18.
The Xmas academics a combination game at whist / [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Cambridge academics: four dons are playing whist, grimacing at each other; a man standing beside the table holds up his hand spreading his fingers to signal the cards held by a player seated in front of him; an old woman serves wine; two dogs approach the table; on the wall behind is a portrait of Archbishop Synge."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Christmas academics
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 20 January 1773 by J. Bretherton. Cf. No. 4728 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Teachers, Card games, Wine, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Xmas academics a combination game at whist / [graphic]

19.
The battle of the cataplasm [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.03.01+
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 text 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. 5216 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., On either side of title, a quote from a scene in Vol. 4 of Tristram Shandy: Susannah rowing one way & looking another, set fire to Dr. Slop's wig, which being somewhat bushy & unctuous withal was as soon burnt as kindled ..., and J. Ruse 1799.
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, Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The battle of the cataplasm [graphic]

20.
The damnation of Obadiah [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 23, 1799.
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dr. Slop, short and fat, seated in an arm-chair (centre) holding in his left hand the book containing the form of excommunication, points with his right at Obadiah who is disappearing (left), one leg and his back alone being visible. A handkerchief hangs over the doctor's cut right thumb. Behind him on the left stands Mr. Shandy, in dressing-gown and night-cap, smoking a long pipe, he is frowning and holds out his left hand in protest at the doctor's curses. Uncle Toby, his crutch under his left arm, stands on the right. pointing with his left hand at a map of Flanders which hangs on the wall over Dr. Slop's head. He turns to speak to Corporal Trim, who stands (right) at attention in profile to the left holding a long broom."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 30 Jan. 1773 by J. Bretherton. Cf. no. 5214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Text below title: Vide Tris. Shandy, vol. 2d., Four lines of prose below image, two on either side of title: "May all the angels & archangels, principalities and powers, & all the heavenly armies curse & damn him ...", One of a series of prints illustrating Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy., Temporary local subject terms: Maps: Flanders -- Male costume: Dressing gown and night cap -- Man-servant -- Male headdress: Pig-tail -- Furniture: Ladder-back chairs -- Household utensils -- Medical -- Dr. Slop., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Physicians, Servants, Maps, Chairs, and Brooms & brushes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The damnation of Obadiah [graphic]

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