The engraved title page carries no makers name. The frontispiece states "Rowlandson del." The following plates are numbered 1 to 29 and are "Design'd & Etch'd by Rowlandson." All plates carry the ...
Andrew Atkinson continues a look back to prolific horse Doctor Syntax in Part 2 of an illustrious career on the turf. Doctor Syntax began his career as a stallion, age 13, in 1824 and sired two ...
Doctor Syntax – not to be confused with the hip hop rapper – was a hybrid character of caricature and comic verse, and one of the first illustrated characters to have his own merchandise in England, ...
An imitation of The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque / William Combe ; engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. Cf. Doctor Syntax / H.W. Hamilton. 1969. p. 318 Originally published as: The ...
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THE secret grave of one of the most famous sporting heros in history may have been unearthed by archaeologists in the backyard of a king. Doctor Syntax was the Phar Lap of his day, winning 36 races ...