Two episodes in Tristram Shandy: (left) four figures smoking and relaxing in Shandy Hall; (right) the baptism of Tristram. Engraving after W. Hogarth.

  • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
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[between 1830 and 1839?]
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24850i
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Two episodes in Tristram Shandy: (left) four figures smoking and relaxing in Shandy Hall; (right) the baptism of Tristram. Engraving after W. Hogarth. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The left scene shows Hogarth's composition used as frontispiece to vol. 1 of Tristram Shandy, April 1760 (Paulson 233 [240]): on the left Dr Slop is asleep, on the right Corporal Trim reads a sermon on Conscience, and in the background Walter Shandy and Uncle Toby smoke and drink. The right scene shows Hogarth's composition used as frontispiece to vol. 4 of Tristram Shandy, 1761 (Paulson 234 [241]): Walter Shandy, having had trouble with his trousers, arrives too late at the baptism of his son to prevent him being baptised with the name Tristram

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London (88 Fleet St.) : E. T. Brain & Co., [between 1830 and 1839?]

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1 print : engraving

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Frontispiece to Tristram Shandy. Engraved from the original of W. Hogarth.

References note

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, 3 ed., London 1989, related to nos 233-234

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Wellcome Collection 24850i

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