Regency parson in a church graveyard with old maid. A sexton gravedigger in a grave holds a skull. The banns forbidden. 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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