Doctor Syntax at a masquerade at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket. He in fancy dress as a conjuror with cape and wand, his wife in a hooped skirt, veil, parasol and feathers. Others dressed as a Turk in turban, harlequin in blackface, clown, devil, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Isaac Robert Cruikshank from The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, in the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis, J. Johnson, London, 1820.

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