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C1815
Doctor Syntax Sketching the lake.
Artist:
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Amusing aquatint by THomas Rowlandson of f Dr Syntax the fictitious character created by William Combe (1742-1823) based on his early life of an adventurer. From Combe’s, The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in the search of the Picturesque A Poem. Ackerman, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Doctor Syntax Sketching the lake.
Date:
C1815
Artist:
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Aquatint with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
188mm
x 110mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1815
Description:
Amusing aquatint by THomas Rowlandson of f Dr Syntax the fictitious character created by William Combe (1742-1823) based on his early life of an adventurer.
From Combe’s, The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in the search of the Picturesque A Poem. Ackerman, London 1815
Biography:
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Rowlandson was a London born artist and caricutarist, educated at the school of Dr Barvis in Soho Square, then “an academy of some celebrity,” According to his obituary of 22 April 1827 in The Gentlemen’s Magazine, Rowlandson was sent to Paris at the age of 16 (1772), and spent two years studying in a “drawing academy. there. In Paris he studied drawing “the human figure” and continued developing his youthful skill in caricature. It was on his return to London that he took classes at the Royal Academy, then based at Somerset House. Rowlandson spent six years studying at the Royal Academy, but about a third of this time was spent in Paris. He was to become one of the most famous of the English caricutarists along side James Gilray.
