[Stage coach setting out from a posting house] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Stage coach setting out from a posting house] [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher.
Published / Created: [15 October 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Octr. 15, 1787, by T. Rowlandson, No. 50, Poland Street
Abstract: "A stage coach setting out from a posting house, with the sign of a coat of arms; the coach loaded with passengers, the horses at right, a case being handed up at left; a smiling young woman handing a glass to the coachman in the doorway at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by curator.
Printmaker from Grego.
For a brief description of series, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 212.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Window mounted to 18.5 x 26 cm.
Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 16.4 x 24.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Etchings England London 1787
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Carriages & coaches
Subjects: Carriages & coaches
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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