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Thomas Patch
1725-1782
"Dr." Stern, alias Tristram Shandy / TP.
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
Published:
[England] : [publisher not identified], [1768]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark.
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.
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