Thomas Rowlandson

Signed or inscribed l.r., pen and grey ink and wash over traces of pencil

13 x 19.7 cm

A drawing, Dr. Syntax alarmed by a whale, which shows Dr. Syntax losing his hat and wig to the wind, as in the present drawing, is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Paul Mellon Collection (see John Baskett and Dudley Snelgrove, The Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection, 1977, no. 321 ill.)