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William Combe

British writer and adventurer (1742-1823)

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  • Doctor Syntax attending a scientific demonstration at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W. Combe.
  • Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal college of physicians and John Fothergill (in particular). Engraving, 1771, after W. Combe.
  • Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allow its continuation. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1815, after Quiz.
  • Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal College of Physicians, and in particular John Fothergill. Engraving after W. Combe.
  • Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
  • Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
  • Doctor Syntax attending a scientific demonstration at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W. Combe.
  • Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal college of physicians and in particular John Fothergill. Engraving after W. Combe.
  • Doctor Syntax attending a scientific demonstration at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W. Combe.

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Laurence Sterne
Thomas Rowlandson
Lyttelton, Thomas Lyttelton, baron, 1744-1779.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Great Britain - Politics and government - 1760-1789
Great Britain - Politics and government - 1760-1820
English poetry - 18th century
Great Britain - Politics and government - 1789-1820
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773 Correspondence
English letters
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 Correspondence.
Novelists, English - 18th century - Correspondence
English poetry - Early works to 1800
Chemical apparatus