File:George Cruikshank - Tristram Shandy, Plate VIII. The Smoking Batteries original scan.png

DescriptionGeorge Cruikshank - Tristram Shandy, Plate VIII. The Smoking Batteries original scan.png	Original, unmodified and unrotated scan. From George Cruikshank's illustrations to Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Plate VIII: The Smoking Batteries. Uncle Toby in the sentry box, the corporal on the right. Basically, the corporal has invented a way to make multiple cannons be fired at once, by using the principles of a hookah - when a puff is taken, the cannons fire. Unfortunately, the two find the puffing a little too enjoyable...
Date	This version published 1906
Source	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne, With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: Hutchinson & Co, Paternoster Row, 1906
Author	George Cruikshank (1792–1878)
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Part of a series of illustrations of Tristram Shandy

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  Plate I. The Effects of Trim's Eloquence
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  Plate II. Obadiah leading in Dr. Slop
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  Plate III. The Jack-boots transformed into Mortars
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  Plate IV. The long-nosed Stranger of Strasburg
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  Plate V. My Uncle Toby on his Hobby-horse
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  Plate VI. Trim's relation of Tristram's misfortune
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  Plate VII. The Quarrel of Slop and Susannah
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  Plate VIII. The Smoking Batteries
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