Title from caption below image., Artist from earlier print of which this is a copy., Questionable date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A copy of a plate originally published in: Annals of horsemanship ... / communicated by various correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. [pseud.] ... London: Printed for W. Dickinson ..., 1791., Description based on imperfect impression; text, probably a statement of responsibility, erased from lower left corner of sheet., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Doctor Cassock -- Horses.
"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
Alternative Title:
Doctor Syntax and dairy maid
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., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior.
"The doctor, mounted on Grizzle, is beside a four-direction signpost on an open heath with a group of asses in the middle distance."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later version of the design
Alternative Title:
Doctor Syntax losing his way
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Combe, W. The tour of Dr. Syntax in search of the picturesque. London: R. Ackermann's Respository of Arts, 1812., "Plate 2"--Upper right corner., For an early version of the design, published in 1809 in Ackermann's The Poetical magazine, see no. 11508 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 176. For a later version of the design, published in 1813, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1866,1114.848., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Doctor Syntax.
Publisher:
Published 1 May 1812, at R Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Teachers, Horseback riding, Traffic signs & signals, and Donkeys
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In upper right corner: Plate 8., Variant state of no. 11514 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and Temporary local subject terms: Illustrative material: Dr. Syntax.
Publisher:
Published 1 May 1812, at R Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Variant state of no. 11679 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and Temporary local subject terms: Illustrative material: Dr. Syntax -- Inns: bedroom -- Robbers.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1, 1812 at R Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
The highlander falls back against a table, his one leg held by the 'druid' who sits on a chair made from a barrel as he tends a wound on the Scotsman's calf
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Numbered '15' in upper left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted.
On a hilly rural scene a man in a Northumbrian[?] checkered-plaid over shirt and cap, with bare feet and legs, carries a stave on which are tied his shoes and trousers. The man is followed by a similarly barefooted and barelegged boy carrying waterbottles[?]. They seem to be walking past an inn called the Crown outside which is parked a covered wagon
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on range of years in which Davison produced caricatures. See: Isaac, Peter. Some Alnwick caricatures. Wylam : Allenholme Press, 1965., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A scene in a sitting room, a man in a fit of anger kicks over a chair and table set with tea; a pitcher, cups and saucers, tongs and other tableware are in flight or shattered on the floor. The man holds his wig in his left hand as a woman looks on with fear. Two cats fight in front of a fireplace above which hangs a seascape with rough waters and lightening. On the back wall another painting shows a man standing over a woman
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Plate numbered "38" in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Couples, Kicking, Interiors, Tables, Fireplaces, and Cats
"Satirical print showing a fat Englishman mocked by a group of Parisians. The Englishman, built along the lines of John Bull, stands at right in his shirtsleeves, clapping his right hand to his forehead in wonder; at left, at least five French people stand together within his buttoned up waistcoat, gesticulating festively; behind at left, a fat woman admired by sketchily drawn thin onlookers."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French people astonished at our improvement in the breed of fat cattle
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Wigs -- Male costume, 1812 -- Walking-sticks --Waistcoat., and In contemporary hand in ink: 231.
