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Maker(s):Clews, James and Ralph
Culture:England
Title:Plate
Date Made:ca. 1818-1835
Type:Food Service
Materials:Refined earthenware (pearlware)
Place Made:Europe; United Kingdom; Great Britain; England; Cobridge
Measurements:overall:
Accession Number:  MH SK B.12.F.23.1
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College

Label Text:
SKINNER CATALOGUE: Stoneware plate. Doctor Syntax pattern in dark blue. Made by James and Ralph Clews
Cobridge- 1818 to 1835
Diam. 10 1/2"
Marked: Doctor Syntax Reading His Tour. Cat. 1934.

Doctor Syntax was a fictionary creation of Thomas Rowlandson, who did the drawing, and William Combe, who did the writing, and had a tremendous vogue in London for a period of ten or fifteen years beginning in 1809, when the sketches and verses first appeared in the Poetical Magazine.

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