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Transcription: The third tour of Doctor Syntax, In seach of a wife, a poem. [Quotation from Horace's Ars Poetica.] London. Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, and to be had of all booksellers.
With an image of a group of musicians.
"The advertisement for a wife." Hand-colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson.
Dr. Syntax uses a chair as a barrier to protect himself from an onslought of women, while a servant attempts to keep the door closed.
"Dr. Syntax presenting a floral offering." Hand-colored aquatint engraving by Thomas Rowlandson.
Dr. Syntax presents a bouquet of flowers to a woman leaning out the window of a house as two children and another woman look on.
"The result of purchasing a blind horse." Hand-colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson.
Dr. Syntax's horse creates havoc, having knocked a woman off her horse, causing him to lose his wig, and almost crashing into a carriage.
"The funeral of Syntax." Hand-colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson.
A long line of mourners wearing black, many of them women, follow Dr. Syntax's body into the church.