Doctor Syntax and Bookseller
Date1812
Artist
Thomas Rowlandson
(English caricaturist and watercolorist, c.1756–1827)
Illustration CitationDr. Syntax & Bookseller was first published in the inaugural issue of Poetical Magazine (1809), along with the rest of William Combe’s poem, under the title “The Schoolmaster’s Tour.” It was later bound in book form (May, 1812).
MediumHand-colored engraving
Dimensionsplate: 4 5/16 × 7 3/16 in. (11 × 18.3 cm)
sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 5/8 in. (12.1 × 19.4 cm)
sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 5/8 in. (12.1 × 19.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1973
Object number1973-104
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.
