A Flemish diligence [graphic]

Description

Title: A Flemish diligence [graphic]
Published / Created: Sep. 8, 1794.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd for J.K. Ansell at No. 9, Clements Inn
Abstract: A coach filled with passengers is driven by a coachman (smoking a pipe) and pulled by two teams of horses. The roof of the carriage is loaded with bags and a cage filled with poultry; the one bag is labeled 'Brussels'. Another cage of birds swings off the bottom of the carriage in the back, the top of which is covered in a tarp. The driver whips the lead team. A coat of arms decorates the door to the carriage
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 327 x 835 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Brussels (Belgium)
Subject (Topic): Carriages & coaches
Chickens
Coach drivers
Cobblestone streets
Luggage
Monks
Nuns
Subjects: Carriages & coaches
Chickens
Coach drivers
Cobblestone streets
Luggage
Monks
Nuns
Brussels (Belgium)
England > 1794
England > London > 1794

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