A rich widow entertains a parson with music on the lute, while the matchmaker hides behind a screen. The visit of Dr. Syntax to the widow Hopefull at York. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe’s The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of Consolation, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1820.

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