The orphan Johnny reunited with his father, Dr. Syntax. The old man has his feet in buckets of warm water to sooth the gout. The bookseller, cook and Betty Broom look on. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax, Ackermann, London, 1822.

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