Doctor Syntax & dairy maid [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Doctor Syntax & dairy maid [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Doctor Syntax and dairy maid
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
- Contributor
-
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University). - Published / Created
- [1 May 1812]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- R. Ackermann
- Abstract
-
"Syntax sits beside a pretty dairymaid in a dairy, while a cat laps from a bowl of cream. They are watched from the doorway by a distressed woman, who unjustly suspects Syntax's intentions."--British Museum catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Reissue, with additional aquatint and statement of responsibility added, and with plate number changed from "Plate 11. Vol. 3" to "Plate 21". For the earlier state, which was published in the Poetical magazine on 1 October 1810 as an illustration to The schoolmaster's tour, see no. 11682 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 177.
Probably a plate from an early edition of William Combe's The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque. Nearly all the plates from the 2nd edition of this work have the imprint "London, Published 1 May 1812 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand"; see Royal Academy Collection online catalogue, record no.: 06/4306.
"Plate 21"--Upper right corner.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior. - Provenance
- Bequest of Clements C. Fry; 1955.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 13.9 x 23.3 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Print00193
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Illustrations
Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1812
Etchings England London 1812
Aquatints England London 1812 - Material
- etching and aquatint ; and hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Combe, William, 1742-1823.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Interiors
Dairy workers
Churns
Cats - Subjects
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Combe, William, 1742-1823 > Illustrations
Interiors
Dairy workers
Churns
Cats
England > 1812
England > London > 1812
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16058021
- Object ID (OID)
- 17339561
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