A study for Sterne's Maria
John Doyle (b. London 1928)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1833
Materials
Paper
Measurements
300 mm (h)440 mm (w)
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Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 354046.6
Summary
Lithograph. A study for Sterne's Maria by John Doyle (b. London 1928). Part collection (49) of HB Sketches. Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket. No.254 A Study for Sterne's Maria, April 11th 1833. A man dressed as a woman (Lord Brougham as Maria) seated under a tree, holding a lamb (the 'Irish Coercion Bill') by a cord around its neck. 11 April 1833. When Tristram Shandy saw Maria sitting on a bank, playing her vespers upon her pipe, she had a little goat beside her; but, when she was afterwards seen by Yorick, "her goat had been as faithless as her lover, and in lieu of it she had got a little dog, which she kept tied by a string to her girdle." In this sketch Lord Brougham represents Maria; the Irish Coercion Bill, such as prepared by his Lordship, is to be supposed to have disappeared, and its place to be supplied by a very harmless creature, not a dog, (for he would not have been a fit emblem of the harmlessness of the substitute,) but a lamb, which H.B. has been under the necessity of adopting, to suit the circumstances of the case. (British Museum)
Makers and roles
John Doyle (b. London 1928), engraver (printmaker)