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| Dr. SYNTAX Series Pratt colours c,1820 |
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Moulded Childs plate decorated with a transfer print with "Pratt" colour's. circa 1820.
This this fourth plate of the series, two countrywomen on horseback discover Dr. Syntax tied to a tree, left there overnight by the highwaymen who robbed him. Rowlandson conceived the character to mock the vogue for the Picturesque, an aesthetic concept popular in late eighteenth-century Britain. The movement grew from essays by William Gilpin that praised irregular natural forms, influenced garden design and encouraged tourists to visit medieval ruins. Rowlandson's series of twenty-nine aquatints detail the adventures of a country curate who travels to the Lake District to sketch landscapes embodying the popular ideal, a journey punctuated by mishaps. The prints first appeared in Rudolph’s Ackermann’s “Poetical Magazine” in 1809-11, supported by William Combe's poetry, and the following year were republished as a book.
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