Dr. Syntax Amused with Pat in the Pond
Date1820
Artist
Thomas Rowlandson
(English caricaturist and watercolorist, c.1756–1827)
MediumHand-colored engraving
Dimensionsplate: 4 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. (11.4 × 18.7 cm)
sheet: 5 9/16 × 9 1/16 in. (14.1 × 23 cm)
sheet: 5 9/16 × 9 1/16 in. (14.1 × 23 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1973
Object number1973-107
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextInvented by the British cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson, Dr. Syntax is a fictional 19th-century clergyman. Rowlandson depicted Syntax's humorous exploits around the British countryside in dozens of prints between 1812 and 1821.
