Phaeton [ Transport ]
… Image George Clarke, ‘Design for a Crane Neck Phaeton carriage’, c.1810, Barker & Co., London, The Science Museum, 1942-47/83. Image George Stubbs, ‘A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton’, 1787, The … wealthy people to have a carriage designed solely for pleasure driving. 1 1 . William Felton, A Treatise on Carriages (London: Printed for and Sold by J. Debrett, 1794), p. 85. The purchasing and maintaining of a suitably glamorous … carriages were key parts of elite leisure. The route du roi or ‘Rotten Row’, the most famous carriage promenade in London, ran along the south side of Hyde Park. After Charles I opened the park to public in the 1630s, he used the route …
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