Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Doctor's Dilemma, or the Elopement frustrated

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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827

The Doctor's Dilemma, or the Elopement frustrated

ca. 1809
5 3/16 x 8 inches (132 x 203 mm)
Pen and watercolor on paper.
2006.24:19

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.

Notes
Caption title.
One of 29 drawings and 4 colored etchings illustrating Combe's "Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque", 1812 (originally published in serial form in 1809). Unpublished.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left within image, "Leap Year"; caption and number "19" written in pencil.
Associated names
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Combe, William, 1742-1823. Tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department