Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3)

by John Ireland; John Nichols

TRISTRAM SHANDY.

FRONTISPIECES TO TRISTRAM SHANDY.

For this popular work of his friend Lawrence Sterne, Hogarth furnished two frontispieces; one in 1759, for the second volume; the other in 1761, for the fourth.

The first of these is taken from the chapter in which Corporal Trim is represented reading a sermon to Tristram's father, Uncle Toby, and Dr. Slop, the latter of whom is fallen asleep, and who was intended for Dr. John Burton, a physician of great eminence at York, well known as an able and industrious antiquary, and also as a sturdy Jacobite.

The second frontispiece represents the christening, so humorously described in the fourteenth chapter of the fourth volume of Tristram Shandy.