Regency gentleman reading aloud before the hearth in an inn. Customers at the Dun Cow include an exciseman, a sleeping cobbler, an amorous couple, a maid, a man with tobacco pipe, hunter with horn. Dr. Syntax reading his Tour. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe’s The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1813.

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