Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with a party of friends, experimenting with laughing gas. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W. Combe.

Dr. Syntax waves his wig in the air while he and his companions dance and laugh, presumably having inhaled from the huge flask of nitrous oxide which they have concocted

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 10.8 x 18.9 cm

Doctor Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics

This print is not found, though the series is described in: British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VIII, London 1947, nos. 11507-11516 & 11672-11689; also J. Grego, Rowlandson the caricaturist, vol. II, London 1880, pp. 176 & 247-52; also J.R. Abbey, Life in England in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860, San Francisco 1991, nos. 265-7

Wellcome Library no. 12086i