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Original - "The Smoking Batteries": In this scene from Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Uncle Toby's colonel invents a device for firing multiple miniature cannons at once, based off a hookah. Unfortunately, he and Toby find the puffing on the hookah pipe so enjoyable that they keep setting the cannons off. Illustration by George Cruikshank.
Reason
Tristram Shandy is an odd novel with a strange, stream-of-consciousness writing style and a subversive humour. I think this illustration brings out some of the odder, more surreal aspects of the novel well.
Articles this image appears in
George Cruikshank, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Creator
George Cruikshank

Promoted File:George Cruikshank - Tristram Shandy, Plate VIII. The Smoking Batteries.jpg ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 18:10, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]