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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Cover of tureen showing the rare view, "The Banns Forbidden" is given up to a description of his wanderings and adven- tures. These Rowlandson etchings were all colored by hand. This fact becomes evident by comparing the colored prints of the "Poetical Mag- azine" with those which appeared in the first edi- tion of the Syntax poem, "The Tour of Doctor Syn- tax in Search of the Pictur- esque." In cases where the prints were made from the same plate the pigments used differ in each impres- sion, showing that the artists who did the color- ing were not particular about matching their shades. This comparison also reveals the fact that in the printed volume of 1812 Rowlandson did not use all of the old plates, but etched new ones and in- serted some which did not appear at all in the "Poetical Magazine." The second volume in this series was not printed until August 1st, 1820, and is called "The Second Tour of Dr
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Inside of tureen—"Dr. Syntax Setting Out on His Second Tour" we find the following: "Designed and etched by Rowland- son." This first volume, in brief, described Dr. Syntax as being a poor clergyman, and having a hard struggle to get along. He appears in the poem to have had a number of accomplishments; among them, he was a very good artist, and a fairly skillful musician. Mrs. Syn- tax was not a very lovable woman, judg- ing by Rowlandson's pictures. She was rather ungainly in appearance, and somewhat given to nagging. Dr. Syn- tax finally decided that he could get along better if he gave up preaching and went out on a sketching tour. So he mounted his old horse, taking along his sketching materials and his violin, and the first volume

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v.8(1911)
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  • bookid:americanhomesgar81911newy
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture_Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:293
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
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