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However, it most probably gave Combe the idea of the Doctor escorting Lady Bounty from the garden to her mansion on their first interview (<i>For while he sojourns he will be, The object of all courtesy.</i> - Vol. ii. p. 217.).","historicalContext":"<i>The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque</i> is a story of a fictional, rural schoolmaster and pastor who attempts to make his fortune by going travelling, and then writing and illustrating a book about his experiences of quaint and unusual places.\r\n\r\nThe story is told in the form of verse, written by William Combe, a prolific English writer of miscellaneous prose and satirical verse, and copiously illustrated with colour plates by Thomas Rowlandson. The text was written to elucidate the illustrations and William Combe explains this process in the introduction to the second volume, 1820: \r\n \r\n'This second tour is, like the former one, a work of suggestions from the plates by Mr. Rowlandson, though not with such entire reserve as the first. Some few of the subjects may have been influenced by hints from me; and I am willing to suppose that such are the least amusing of them.'\r\n\r\n<i>The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque</i> first appeared in serial form in 1809, within The Poetical Magazine, published by Rudolph Ackermann. The work was first collected into book form 'by popular demand' in 1812, and was reprinted a number of times during the following decades, becoming one of the most popular books of early 19th-century England.\r\n\r\nThis collaboration of designer, author, and publisher went on to produce a further two 'Tours'; <i>The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of Consolation</i> (1820), and <i>The Third Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of a Wife</i> (1821).","briefDescription":"Rowlandson, Thomas; Dr. Syntax leading a lady to the entrance of a grand mansion; Illustration apparently designed for 'The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque' but not etched and published as part of it; Watercolour on paper; English School; Early 19th century.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce</u>. 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