A coach pulling up to the Post Station, the Cock Inn at left, on route to Brighton. The coach is pulling into the court yard, about to pass under a wooden gate bearing the inn's sign, while another coach stands at the inn door. People look down from the second story windows. A man waits at the mile marker in front of another building at right. In the foreground to left, a man with a wooden leg carries a small child on his back as he leads a donkey that carries a woman and two children, one of whom appears to be nursing, the other in a basket that hangs over the donkey. Their dog follows behind
Description:
Title etched below image., First of eight plates to: Wigstead, H. Excursion to Brighthelmstone, made in the year 1789. London : Printed ... for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and aquatint in sepia on laid paper ; sheet 26.4 x 33.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1, 1790, by Messrs. Robinson's, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
Sutton (England)
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Donkeys, Peg legs, Poverty, and Taverns (Inns)
