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[Tristram Shandy] The Damnation of Obadiah. ''May all the Angels & Archangels, Principalities and / Powers, & all the Heavenly Armies, curse & damn him - / - him - Obadiah. (Our Armies swore terribly in Flanders / quoth my Uncle Toby, but nothing to this-'') - Vide Tris. Shandy Vol. 2d.
HWBunbury delin 1772. J.Bretherton f.
Publish'd as the Act directs 30th Jan. 1773. By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Etching. Sheet 273 x 410mm (10¾ x 16"). Trimmed within plate and laid on album paper.
Tristram Shandy stands smoking, with Doctor Slop sitting with a bleeding finger wrapped in a handkerchief. Uncle Toby points at a map of Flanders which hangs on the wall over Dr. Slop's head, recounting the Siege of Bergem Op Zoom to Corporal Trim. Obediah exits, stage left. A scene from 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', by Laurence Sterne.
BM Satire 5214.
[Ref: 62227] £180.00
Publish'd as the Act directs 30th Jan. 1773. By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Etching. Sheet 273 x 410mm (10¾ x 16"). Trimmed within plate and laid on album paper.
Tristram Shandy stands smoking, with Doctor Slop sitting with a bleeding finger wrapped in a handkerchief. Uncle Toby points at a map of Flanders which hangs on the wall over Dr. Slop's head, recounting the Siege of Bergem Op Zoom to Corporal Trim. Obediah exits, stage left. A scene from 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', by Laurence Sterne.
BM Satire 5214.
[Ref: 62227] £180.00