A new book of horses and carriages designed & etch'd by T. Rowlandson / [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1784]eng"The auctioneer is in his pulpit, employed in knocking down an assortment of vehicles to a small but sufficiently eccentric-looking audience. A gouty individual, propped on crutches, is making a bid for an antiquated kind of cabriolet, which the groom is trotting up for inspection; around are curricles travelling carriages, and a general assemblage of the machines on wheels representative of the past."--Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturistTitle etched below image.Text in upper right corner of image: The rhedarium, for the sale of all sorts of carriages, by Gregory Gigg.Date of publication from fifth plate in the series; Grego suggests a date of 1783.Title page to a series of eight etched plates illustrating various carts, carriages, wagons, and horses. See: Yale Center for British Art, call no.: Folio A 2011 80.Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.1 print : etching on wove paper, with gray wash ; sheet 19.2 x 30.3 cm.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement from bottom edge.Formerly mounted on leaf 19 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.