Regency parson with an aristocratic bluestocking in a library. In a turban and classical dress, Madam Omicron writes with a quill pen at a desk. Dr. Syntax with a Blue Stocking Beauty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe’s The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of a Wife, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1821.

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