The Visit of Doctor Syntax to the Widow Hopefull at York
Date1820
Artist
Thomas Rowlandson
(English caricaturist and watercolorist, c.1756–1827)
MediumHand-colored engraving
Dimensionsplate: 4 3/8 × 7 3/16 in. (11.1 × 18.3 cm)
sheet: 5 1/2 × 9 1/16 in. (14 × 23 cm)
sheet: 5 1/2 × 9 1/16 in. (14 × 23 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1973
Object number1973-106
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.
