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The Siege of Namur by Captn. Shandy & Corporal Trim : Tris. Shan. / HW Bunbury del. 1772 ; J. Bretherton f.

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James Bretherton
approximately 1730-1806

The Siege of Namur by Captn. Shandy & Corporal Trim : Tris. Shan. / HW Bunbury del. 1772 ; J. Bretherton f.

[London] : Publish'd as the Act directs 26. Jany. 1773. By J. Bretherton No. 134. New Bond Street, [1773
etching
image: 242 x 384 mm; plate mark: 267 x 396 mm; sheet: 273 x 402 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.266
Notes
Below caption title: "What an honest triumph in my Uncle Toby's Eyes as he march'd to the Ramparts with the Gazette in his hand & Trim with a pickaxe ready to execute the Contents; what intense pleasure in his Eyes as he stood over the Corporal! Heaven! Earth! Sea!
One of a series of prints illustrating Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Uncle Toby marching with a crutch under his left arm, pointing with his right crutch towards the fortifications built on the bowling green, where the 'Gate of St Nicolas' is flanked on each side by a jack-boot. In his left hand he holds the 'London Gazette'. Trim, holding up a pickaxe, marches in front of his master. He has a long pig-tail, and a pad is tied over his left knee. On the ground behind is a grenadier's cap. Behind Uncle Toby is the sentry-box, in it is pasted up the plan of a fortification. The background is a rough paling behind which are trees. Shandy Hall appears behind the Gate of St. Nicolas.

Associated names
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, designer.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Bretherton, James
Classification
Print
Department
Drawings and Prints
Century prints
18th century
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