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Doctor Syntax at Covent Garden Theatre

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

(engraver)
1757-1827

(publisher)
1764-1834

Title

Doctor Syntax at Covent Garden Theatre

Date of Production

1813

Medium

etching

Dimensions

Height: 12.2 cm
Width: 19.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5463.23

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Provenance

previous owner: Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir)

Inscriptions

Inscription: recto: lower left, artist: Drawn & Etch'd by Rowlandson.

Inscription: recto: upper right, plate number: Plate 26.

Inscription: recto: lower centre, title: DOCTOR SYNTAX / AT COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.

Inscription: recto: typewritten, lower centre, artist and title: T. ROWLANDSON / Dr. Syntax.

Stamp: recto: stamped in purple, lower centre, provenance: HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION / H. J. CORNISH COLLECTION . 1928.

Stamp: recto: stamped in black, upper right corner: M.

Inscription: recto: handwritten in blue ink, use of object: 'Apollo' August 1967.

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