Regency gentleman charged one pound three pence for a night and meal at an inn. A servant and maid watch, while a man brings his horse Grizzle to the door. Dr. Syntax disputing his bill with the landlady. 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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