Regency parson pranked by a maid playing Madam Brisket. The lady watches behind the curtains. Dr. Syntax received by the maid instead of the mistress. 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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