Portrait of Laurence Sterne, AM, Prebendary of York

Artist: Thomas Stothard, from Sir Joshua Reynolds

Engraver: Revenet

1792

Wood-engraving

11 cm high by 8.2 cm wide

Source: Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, facing title-page in the 1792 edition.

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  • Laurence Sterne (homepage)
  • Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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    Stothard provided only six actual illustrations in the Good and Harding edition of 1792, reprinted by West, Hughes, and E. Harding in 1801, in which edition the publishers employed instead The Pulse as the frontispiece.

  • Title-page: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (1792)
  • Title-page: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick. A New Edition. Adorned with Plates. (1801)