January 20-April 21

The Damnation of Obadiah,
from Tristram Shandy Book 3.11, 1773

A Kick-Up at a Hazard Table, 1790

The Fashionable Mamma, or,
The Convenience of Modern Dress, 1796

The Overthrow of Dr. Slop,
from Tristram Shandy Book 2. 9, 1773

The Battle of the Cataplasm,
from Tristram Shandy Book 6.3, 1773

The Siege of Namur,
from Tristram Shandy Book 6.22, 1773

 

JAMES BRETHERTON, British, active 1760-1790;
after HENRY WILLIAM BUNBURY, British, 1756-1811
The Damnation of Obadiah,
from Tristram Shandy Book 3, Chapter 11
etching, hand-colored, 1773
Gift of Hugh D. Griffith of
Dr. Philip M. Griffith Estate, 99.6.6

 “ ‘May all the Angels and Archangels,
Principalities and powers,
and all the Heavenly Armys
Curse and Damn him (Obadiah),’
‘our Armys swore terribly in Flanders,’
quoth my Uncle Toby,
‘but nothing to this.’ ”