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 … c.1769. The National Gallery, NG6429. Image James Gillray and Hannah Humphries, ‘What can little T.O. do? - Why drive a Phaeton and Two!!-‘, 1801, The British Museum, 1851,0901.1052. Résumé Pleasure-driving emerged as a new elite … vehicle, and horses would reveal to onlookers the sort of driver, or person, you were. From the novels of Frances Burney to Jane Austen to the satirical cartoons of Gillray and Cruikshank and the essays of Thomas de Quincey there was a …
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