Doctor Syntax attending a scientific demonstration at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W. Combe.

  • Combe, William, 1742-1823.
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The tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the pleasures and miseries of the metropolis
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Doctor Syntax attending a scientific demonstration at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W. Combe. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 10.9 x 18.8 cm.

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Doctor Syntax at the London Institution

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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
J.R. Abbey, Life in England in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860, San Francisco 1991, no. 265

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