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The Battle of the Cataplasm   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Henry William Bunbury

Print made by: James Bretherton
Title
The Battle of the Cataplasm
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English: One of a series of illustrations to Tristram Shandy, see BMSat 5213-15. Dr. Slop and Susannah exchanging abuse. Susannah (right) stands behind the cradle in which lies the infant Tristram, a plaster across his nose. A lighted candle is in her left hand; with her right she holds the bridge of her nose, looking at the doctor with a face of fury, her mouth wide open. Dr. Slop stands scowling, his legs wide apart, the cataplasm in a ladle in his right hand; he threatens Susannah with his fist. His wig is blazing, his hat lies on the floor. A chair has been overturned and lies by the cradle. Obadiah is hurrying into the room from the left, a basin in his right hand, a bottle under his right arm, a chamber-pot in his left hand. Behind is a screen, nine leaves of which are visible. A large grandfather clock pointing to 6.15 stands by the wall (right); a table with two medicine bottles appears from behind the screen. On the wall are two portraits. Beneath the design is engraved,



"Susannah, rowing one way & looking another, set fire to Dr. Slop's Wig, which being somewhat bushy & unctuous withal was as soon burnt as kindled - You impudent Whore cried Slop (for what is passion but a wild Beast) You impudent Whore cried Slop getting upright with the Cataplasm in his hand - I never was at the destruction of any body's nose said Susannah, which is more than you can say; - Is it? cried Slop, throwing the Cataplasm in her face - Yes it is cried Susannah returning the Complement with what was left in the pan" - Vide Tris. Shandy vol. 4. 3 February 1773


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Depicted people Illustration to: Laurence Sterne
Date 1773
date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 260 millimetres
Width: 390 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,6.32
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-6-32
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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