The Spital Fields phaeton [graphic].

Description

Title: The Spital Fields phaeton [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: Jany 5, 1773.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. accord. to act by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Abstract: A very fat man, smiling and smoking a pipe, sits in his phaeton with a footman standing behind and a hunchbacked postilion with a wooden leg rides on the back of the small horse pulling the carriage
Description: Title etched below image.
Earlier of the two known states. For the later state with additions to the design and with different plate number, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 773.01.05.01.2.
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "2" in upper right corner.
Plate later reissued by R. Sayer with a different title. Cf. No. 5176 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Provenance: Peter Murray Hill, October 1957;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.9 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 22 x 29 cm
Edition: [1st state].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Carriages & coaches
Obesity
Servants
Pipes (Smoking)
Subjects: Carriages & coaches
Obesity
Servants
Pipes (Smoking)
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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