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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
23.9 × 34.3 cm (9.4 × 13.5 in)

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