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Thomas Rowlandson
Syntax preaching (1811-1812); printed (1815)
hand-coloured etching and aquatint
11.1 × 18.7 cm (image) 13.9 × 23.2 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
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Syntax preaching
(1811-1812); printed (1815)
plate 24 from The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. A poem by William Combe, published by Rudolf Ackermann, London, 1815 edition
Medium
hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Measurements
11.1 × 18.7 cm (image) 13.9 × 23.2 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 11685; Grego II pp. 247–52, 270
Edition
1815 edition
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Drawn & Etched by Rowlandson
printed in ink u.c.: London: Pub.Feb.y (y in superscript above . ) 1.1815, at R.Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1010 Strand.
printed in ink u.r.: Pl.24.
printed in ink l.c.: SYNTAX PREACHING.
Accession Number
1274-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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