Antique Georgian 1819 Aquatint of Rev Doctor Syntax by Thomas Rowlandson, Mounted & Framed.

Original aquatint print drawn by Rowlandson, engraved by Rowlandson. Hand watercolored. 1819 (Georgian).

Over 200 years old, in good condition, some foxing .

Mounted & Framed.

12x15inches.

William Combe (1741-1823), “prolific English writer of miscellaneous prose and satirical verse whose poem The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque (1812) was one of the most popular books of early 19th-century England…Dr. Syntax was introduced in 1809 in The Poetical Magazine. Combe’s first Dr. Syntax book and its successors, The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of Consolation (1820) and The Third Tour…in Search of a Wife (1821), satirize the many 18th- and early 19th-century writers whose ‘Tours,’ ‘Travels,’ and ‘Journeys’ were vehicles for sententious moralizing, uninspired raptures, and sentimental accounts of amorous adventures. The popularity of Combe’s work owed much to the illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson. Combe and Rowlandson also collaborated on The English Dance of Death (1815), which contains some of Combe’s best verse, and The Dance of Life (1816-17)” (Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature).