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Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson

Doctor Syntax, in the Middle of a Smoking Hot Political Squabble, Wishes to Whet his Whistle

August 31, 1813
Hand-colored etching
24.7 × 34.9 cm (9.7 × 13.7 in)

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