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Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806, British, The Damnation of Obadiah, 1773
- Title:
The Damnation of Obadiah
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Tristam Shandy
Collective Title: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Date:
- 1773
- Medium:
- Etching on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/16 x 15 11/16 inches (30.6 x 39.8 cm), Plate: 10 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches (26.4 x 39.3 cm), Image: 9 5/16 x 14 15/16 inches (23.7 x 37.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower left: "44539 (encircled)"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "HWBunbury delin. 1772. | "May all the Angels & Archangels, Principalities and | Powers, & all the Heavenly Armies, curse & damn him -"; lower center: "THE DAMNATION OF OBADIAH. | Vide Tris. Shandy Vol. 2d. | Publish'd as the Act directs 30th. Jany. 1773. By J. Bretherton No. 134 New Bond Street."; lower right: "J. Bretherton f. | - him - Obadiah. (Our Armies swore terribly in Flanders, | quoth my Uncle Toby, but nothing to this-")"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11142
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- book | breeches (trousers) | broom | caricature | chairs | coats | crutch | cut | dog (animal) | doorway | excommunication | fiction | genre subject | gesture | handkerchief | humor | illustration | interior | map | men | nightcap | nightgown | novel | physician | pipe (smoking equipment) | pointing | profile (figure) | satire | science | shouting | smoking (activity) | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) | tricorne | waistcoats | walking | wound
- Associated People:
- Corporal Trim
Uncle Toby
Obadiah
Tristam Shandy
Doctor Slop - Access:
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