Probably an illustration to Sterne's Sentimental Journey. A corpulent gentleman with an equally rotund lady on his arm waits in a line of passengers to board a ship. An invalid is carried up the gangpank in a chair, while a servant carries a side of beef on a platter together with a basket of wine-bottles. Another gentleman descends from a coach. Masts of sailing vessels occupy the background
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs, by A. Hamilton ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Dover (England), England, and Dover
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[April 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 14 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pretty, well-dressed girl steps into a hackney coach from the left while the coachman in blue coat doffs his hat. He stands facing left by the door and on the extreme left stands the girl's mother wearing a huge hat and carrying a muff. Ms. inscription below title: "This is the most fashionable coach on the stand says a pretty young lady stepping into me with all the hilarity of soul that distinguishes the cheerful children of prosperity; after whom followed an elderly lady her mother." (Vid. Adventures of a hackney coach).
Description:
Title inscribed below image in black ink in the artist's hand., Signed and dated by the artist around perimeter of the design., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, and Passengers
"A scene in the small courtyard of a London inn, at which a stage-coach has just arrived. A stout lady is getting out of the coach, larger in scale than the other figures; the coachman is taking game, &c, from the box. A short stout 'cit' yawns and stretches. Another man looks sourly at his watch; packages lie on the ground, including a hamper directed to 'Alderman Guttle'. A smiling waiter (right) invites the company to enter the inn. Through the folding gates of the yard is seen a street with a distant church."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Artist from British Museum catalogue no. 6758., Plate numbered '12' in upper right corner., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31., and Variant of no. 6758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Passengers, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, and Clothing & dress
"A coach without passengers or driver proceeds (right to left) with the wheels sunk in sand (resembling water). Beside it trudge the driver (left), the guard with his blunderbuss, and two men passengers. On a bank above the road, two ladies and two men run in the same direction. On the roof of the coach are band-boxes and a turtle; on the door a swan with two necks (sign of the famous coaching-inn in Lad Lane)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and right sides., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country in different parts of England & South Wales. London : Published by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row, 1796., "Plate 45" etched in upper left; "Page 109" etched in upper right., Printed on paper watermarked "1813". Window mounted to 44 x 28 cm., and Mounted opposite page 18 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
The collision of several coaches results in a scene of mayhem on a city street as the coachmen brandish their whips, much to the horror of their well-dressed passengers. As a result of the collisions, two vendors and their wares are thrown on a third vendor, all tumbling onto the sidewalk in front of the corner shop "Peter Thump Gold Beater". A workman carrying bricks up a ladder is also in peril. Gold beaters in the corner shop look on while continuing their work. On the right two dancing dogs continue their performance
Description:
Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of text below title: In going out to dinner (already too late) your carriage delayed by a jam of coaches ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: J Whatman., and Mounted to 31 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1807 by R. Ackeman [sic], No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Coach drivers, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Dogs, Passengers, Street vendors, Trained animals, Traffic accidents, and Metalworkers
Outside the Maidenhead Inn a crowd of travelers pile into an already overcrowded coach. Two large women push an obese man up the ladder into the carriage which is already filled to capacity; the passengers inside cry out with distress at the sight of the man being pushed inside. Two couples who have climbed on top of the carriage embrace as do other couples surrounding the carriage, waiting to board. The inn's sign advertises "Entertainment f[or] man and horse".
Alternative Title:
Miseries of traveling
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of text below title: Just as you are going off with only one other person on your side of the coach ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 15th, 1807 by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Passengers, and Taverns (Inns)
"A clumsy lumbering diligence, with four horses, leaves the porte-cochère of an inn, part of whose ornate façade is on the left. The sign, 'Le Qoque [sic] en Pate', hangs from a wrought-iron bracket. Two postilions ride the near horses, flourishing their whips. The coach is full inside and out with typical French characters, humorously drawn, soldiers, monks, and women, with couples absorbed in conversation. An old couple beg from the passengers. A lean sow with small pigs scampers beside the coach. In the background (left) is the west end of a small church with a Calvary beside it at which nuns kneel in prayer; a group of monks approaches holding a cross. Down the hill leading from inn and church a post-chaise and pair and a post-boy on a horse are galloping, the latter wearing the huge 'milk-churn' boots which astonished visitors to France. A row of very ancient gabled houses forms part of the background, while on the extreme right is a large building of more recent date."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Paris diligence
Description:
Title from caption below item. and For a later state with imprint and plate number, see no. 11624 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Carriages & coaches, Cities & town life, Christianity, Crucifixions, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), Passengers, Pigs, and Stagecoaches
"A stout and disappointed coachman standing outside a house at night, holding out his hand in which there is a single coin; at left, a smartly dressed but uncouth looking couple standing in their doorway making jeering faces, the man with his hand in his pocket, a maid with a candle behind; the coach behind at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Surly saucy Hackney coachman
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., Mounted to 38 x 28 cm., and Watermark: IW[?]
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Light fixtures, and Passengers
The scene of an accident on a rural road: The passangers are tossed from an overturning carriage onto the road, some already on the ground suffering from the loss of their hats and wigs while others are still somersaulting through the air; one couple are still trapped inside the carriage. The team of horses are running away
Description:
Title from caption below image., In lower right corner of print: P. 132., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.