print;
satirical print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1866,1114.873
- Title
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Object: The doctor's dream.
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Series: The tour of Doctor Syntax
- Description
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Plate facing p. 238. Syntax sleeps in an arm-chair in a handsome library. Over the fireplace is a topographical view of London from the S.E. Two groups of flying books with human heads and dolphin-like bodies approach each other in combat above his head; piles of the fallen lie on the floor.
Plate 27.
16 August 1813
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1813
- Dimensions
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Height: 220 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 145 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
An illustration to the addition made to the 'Tour' (as Canto xxv) on its republication. The dream (derived from Swift), in the library of Lord Carlisle's London house, is of a conflict between the Greek and Latin authors led by Pallas's owl, and commercial publications led by Cocker, father of mercantile arithmetic.
(Supplementary information)
See register numbers 1866,1114.845-875 for the whole volume.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The tour of Doctor Syntax
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,1114.873