Doctor Syntax rouwt om zijn overleden vrouw, Thomas Rowlandson, 1820

Title(s)

Doctor Syntax rouwt om zijn overleden vrouw
Dr. Syntax lamenting the loss of his wife (title on object)

Object type

• print
• cartoon

Object number

RP-P-2002-586

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Thomas Rowlandson
• after own design by: Thomas Rowlandson (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Rudolph Ackermann (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

Jan-1820

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / aquatint / hand coloring

Measurements

height 148 mm
width 244 mm

What

• names of literary characters
• deathbed
• mourning the dead

Credit line

• Gift of J.U. Flohil-de Jong, Santpoort-Zuid

Acquisition

gift 2002

Copyright

Public domain

• Life in England in aquatint and lithography [in books published in England between] 1770-1860 : architecture, drawing books, art collections, magazines, navy and army, panoramas etc. from the library of J.R. Abbey : a bibliographical catalogue, J.R. Abbey, E. Jutro, p. 227, cat.nr. 266-1