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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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A man drawing farm animals

Thomas Rowlandson
In collaboration with William Combe

This print accompanies a chapter in which Dr. Syntax meets a country squire and announces that only farm animals would be proper subjects for his picturesque drawings.

Doctor Syntax Drawing After Nature

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Doctor Syntax in Paris in Search of the Grotesque

Doctor Syntax Observing Lakes

Thomas Rowlandson, William Combe

Dr. Syntax sits on his horse at the center of the engraving, holding an open sketchbook and pen; an open umbrella appears to be tucked under his arm. A local fisherman and his dog stand behind him; before Syntax, on the water, a man rows three tourists in a boat, two of them women.

Doctor Syntax Sketching the Lake

Syntax Falling Into Water

William Combe, Thomas Rowlandson

Doctor Syntax Tumbling into the Water was first published in the inaugural issue of Poetical Magazine (1809), along with the rest of Combe’s poem, “The Schoolmaster’s Tour.” It was later bound in book form (May, 1812). Dr. Syntax falls backward off his rocky seat into the water.

Doctor Syntax Tumbling into the Water

Doctor Syntax Tumbling into the Water

Thomas Rowlandson
In collaboration with William Combe

Dr. Syntax falls backward off his rocky seat into the water. Though his hat has fallen into the water, he still clutches his pen and journal: he has evidently been sketching the moss-covered ruins of the castle crowning the small hill before him.

Doctor Syntax Tumbling into the Water

Doctor Syntax reading a poem to a woman

Thomas Rowlandson
In collaboration with William Combe

This print depicts the moment in Combe's text when Doctor Syntax makes a sexual advance towards his hostess, the beautiful bluestocking Mrs. Omicron.

Doctor Syntax with Bluestocking Beauty

View of a Medieval Market

George Sidney Shepherd

Commenting on Romantic ruin painting, Louis Hawes states that medieval ruins were popular subjects for topographical artists and watercolorists. Indeed, the portfolios of Samuel Prout and Samuel and Nathaniel Buck—trained topographers of the Romantic era—all include medieval ruins.

Dover Castle from a Market Stall on Castle Street

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Dr. Prosody

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Dr. Syntax’s Life of Napoleon

cork model

Richard Du Bourg

This engraving depicts Richard Du Bourg’s collection of cork models, which at the time of this image’s creation (1808-9) was housed at 68 Grosvenor Street, London.

Du Bourg’s Museum of Cork Models

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Due Antichi Monumenti di Architettura Messicana

pile of stones near road

Joseph Wilkinson
In collaboration with William Frederick Wells

Dunmail raise, on the Ambleside Road. The heap of stones in the foreground perpetuate the name and fall of the last King of Cumberland.

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