The battle of the cataplasm [graphic] / H. Bunbury Esqr. del.

Creator:

Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist

Published/Created:

[London] :
[s.n.],
[ca. 1817?]

Physical Description:

1 print :
etching on wove paper, hand-colored ;
sheet 24.3 x 34 cm

Related Links:

http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitemg.asp?itemid=lwlpr10361

Notes:

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.
CtY-LW
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.

Abstract:

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.

Topics:

Cradles
Longcase clocks
Physicians
Quarreling
Screens
Servants

Topics:

Sterne, Laurence,--1713-1768.--Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman--Illustrations

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1817
Satires (Visual works)--England--1817

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

Bunbury
803.00.00.45+
Bunbury 803.00.00.45+

Orbis Record:

10173942

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr03545

OID:

10955155

PID:

digcoll:973533