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The
Siege of Namur,
from Tristram Shandy Book 6.22, 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
Damnation of Obadiah,
from Tristram Shandy Book 3.11, 1773
The
Battle of the Cataplasm,
from Tristram Shandy Book 6.3, 1773
after HENRY WILLIAM BUNBURY, British, 1756-1811
The Siege of Namur,
from Tristram Shandy
Book 6, Chapter 22
etching, hand-colored, 1773
Gift of Hugh D. Griffith of
Dr. Philip M. Griffith Estate, 99.6.8
“What
an honest triumph in Uncle Toby’s eyes he marched to the ramparts
with the Gazette in his hand and Trim with a Pickaxe ready to execute
the contents.”
This
is the final print of Bunbury’s Tristram Shandy series.
These works were not commissioned by the book’s author as
illustrations for the novel. Instead, they would have been sold by James
Bretherton in his print shop apart from the novel. Although based on the text, they were conceived independently of
it.
This
scene shows Captain Shandy and his trusty assistant Corporal Trim with
their scale-model reconstruction of the siege of Namur. The corporal is armed with a pickaxe to up-date
the model fortifications, according to the latest newspaper account of
the siege which the captain holds in his hand. Throughout this series,
Sterne’s novel provides comic situations that are best represented
by the comic style of drawing.
