Regency gentleman’s wig attacked by a swarm of bees in the gardens of Bounty Hall. Servants with buckets and bedpans to the rescue. Dr. Syntax and the bees. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe’s The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of Consolation, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1820.

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