Doctor Syntax and His Counterpart
Date1820
Artist
Thomas Rowlandson
(English caricaturist and watercolorist, c.1756–1827)
MediumHand-colored engraving
Dimensionsplate: 4 5/8 × 7 1/4 in. (11.7 × 18.4 cm)
sheet: 6 1/16 × 9 11/16 in. (15.4 × 24.6 cm)
sheet: 6 1/16 × 9 11/16 in. (15.4 × 24.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1973
Object number1973-105
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.