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Title(s):
Striking likenesses, handsomely framed, only 1s. each, taken at 114, Strand, opposite Exeter 'Change.
Published/Created:
[London] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : portrait ; 81 x 45 mm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3991.A1 S77 1820 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Trade card of an unidentified portrait artist.
With a woodcut profile. The subject is identified, in ms, as Doctor Syntax (a character in comic poems by William Combe). The profile closely copies the depiction of Doctor Syntax made famous by Thomas Rowlandson.
Subject Terms:
Artists -- Great Britain.
Combe, William, 1742–1823. Tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque -- Illustrations.
London (England) -- Social life and customs.
Portrait drawing, English.
Portraits -- Great Britain.
Form/Genre:
Advertisements.
Trade cards (advertising)
Ephemera.
Woodcuts -- 1820.
Contributors:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827. Doctor Syntax drawings.
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