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Doctor Syntax Tumbling into the Water

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

(etcher)
1757-1827

Title

Doctor Syntax Tumbling into the Water

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.7 cm
Width: 19.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2125

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Provenance: H. J. Cornish Collection; acquired by Hampstead Public Library (by 1928); transferred to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt Library in 1966; transferred to the Courtauld Gallery from the Witt Library in 1990.

Exhibition History

Gainsborough to Turner - British Watercolours from the Spooner
Collection
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/11/2005-12/02/2006

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper margin right & recto : : Plate 22

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : last three letters missing - edge of paper torn : DR SYNTAX / TUMBLING INTO THE WA[TER]

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin left & recto : : Drawn [ampersand] etch'd by Rowlandson

Inscription: inscription : stamped : on mount : stamp of Hampstead Public Libraries :

Inscription: inscription : typed : on mount : Witt documentation : T.ROWLANDSON / Dr. Syntax

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