Two episodes in Tristram Shandy: (left) four figures smoking and relaxing in Shandy Hall; (right) the baptism of Tristram. Engraving after W. Hogarth.

The left scene shows Hogarth's composition used as frontispiece to vol. 1 of Tristram Shandy, April 1760 (Paulson 233 [240]): on the left Dr Slop is asleep, on the right Corporal Trim reads a sermon on Conscience, and in the background Walter Shandy and Uncle Toby smoke and drink. The right scene shows Hogarth's composition used as frontispiece to vol. 4 of Tristram Shandy, 1761 (Paulson 234 [241]): Walter Shandy, having had trouble with his trousers, arrives too late at the baptism of his son to prevent him being baptised with the name Tristram