The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife: A Poem (volume III)
published 1821
Artist, British, 1741 - 1823
Artwork overview
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Medium
1 vol: ill: 26 hand-colored etchings with aquatint
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Credit Line
Gift of Ann Vershbow, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
page size: 23 x 14 cm (9 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1990.124.3
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Catalogue Raisonné
Grego 1880, Vol. II, no. 247, State -252
Artwork history & notes
Bibliography
1880
Grego, Joseph. Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures. 2 vols. London: Chattoand Windus, 1880. Reprint. New York: Collector's Editions, 1970.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.132.
Inscriptions
on first unnumbered page, upper left stamped: BARTLETT & Co. BOSTON; on first unnumbered page, upper right in ball-point pen: 64-21-21b; on most plates, lower left in plate: D rawn by Rowlandson.