Without Sterne
Without Sterne
Without Sterne
Without Sterne
Without Sterne
Without Sterne

© the artist's estate. Image credit: The Laurence Sterne Trust

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Laurence Sterne met Eliza Draper in London. Eliza was 23 years old and visiting England from her home in India. She had married Daniel Draper, an East India Company employee 30 years her senior, at the age of 14. Sterne and Eliza met in Gerrard Street, Soho, a meeting place for East India employees. Sterne was 54 and separated from his wife. He wrote to Eliza that they 'took fire at each other at the same time…' and they spent much of the next three months together in a relationship which, for Sterne, soon became all-consuming.

This work by Nancy Fouts shows a vessel similar to the one that took Eliza back to India. However, in a play on words, the ship is without a stern. It has two prows and its sails have extracts of Sterne’s letters written upon them.
Title

Without Sterne

Date

2012

Medium

wood, paper & thread

Measurements

H 30 x W 50 x D 10 cm

Accession number

CCWSH 1545

Work type

Sculpture

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