"Doctor Syntax Copying the Wit..."
DateAugust 16, 1813
After work by
Thomas Rowlandson
Publisher
Rudolph Ackermann
Engraver
Thomas Rowlandson
OriginEngland, London
MediumBlack and white aquatint with period hand color
DimensionsOH: 5 5/8" x OW: 9 1/4"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1973-269
DescriptionThe upper margin reads: "London, Pub. Aug.t 16 1813, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand."The lower margin reads: "DOCTOR SYNTAX/ COPYING THE WIT OF THE WINDOW./ Drawn & Etched by Rowlandson."ProvenanceBefore 1973, Roy Everett Tomlinson and Eleanor Parsons (Montclair, NJ); 1973-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).
