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Thomas Patch
1725-1782
"Dr." Stern, alias Tristram Shandy / TP.
Published
[England] : [publisher not identified], [1768]
aquatint and etching
image: 12 15/16 x 6 9/16 inches (329 x 166 mm); sheet: 13 1/16 x 6 11/16 inches (332 x 170 mm)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1233
Notes
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Aquatinted etching representing Lawrence Sterne, a gaunt figure very like that described in "Sterne and Death" , No. 4817, bowing with courteous ceremoniousness before an hourglass, held before him by a skeleton hand, which is that of Death. This is "No. 20" of the "Caricatures" of Thomas Patch.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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