Regency parson and ladies playing in a bower. Miss Crotchet on violin, Dr. Syntax on violin, old dame on double bass and liveried black boy holding a trumpet and French horn. The garden trio. 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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