Phaeton [ Transport ]
… 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 National Gallery, NG3529. Image George Stubbs, 'The Milbanke and Melbourne … ‘What can little T.O. do? - Why drive a Phaeton and Two!!-‘, 1801, The British Museum, 1851,0901.1052. Abstract Pleasure-driving emerged as a new elite sociable pastime in late eighteenth-century Britain. The best and most desired pleasure-carriage was the phaeton. Toweringly high and extremely dangerous to drive, the phaeton was the supercar of the …
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