Yorick's progress / Martin Rowson ; commentary by Patrick Wildgust.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowson, Martin, artist.

Contributor:

Wildgust, Patrick, writer of commentary.

Geoffrey Day Collection of Laurence Sterne (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman--Pictorial works.

Sterne, Laurence.

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768--Pictorial works.

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.

Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne, Laurence).

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Penn Provenance:

Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[24] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Coxwold : Shandy Hall Press, 2021.

Summary:

Commentary on 8 drawings comissioned for an exhibition in July 2009. The drawings depict the latter years of Rev's Laurence Sterne's life, as his fictional character Parson Yorick, from the publishing of the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy in 1759 to his death in 1768. The drawings were inspired by William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress.

Notes:

"This first edition of Yorick's progress consists of 200 copies, including twenty numbered I-XX and signed by the illustrator."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copy acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2020.

OCLC:

1285709933