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 … 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 … phaeton was an indicator to others of your character. Objects > Transport Mots-clés Animals Courtship Elite British carriage ownership rapidly increased over the course of the long eighteenth century and by its close, elite Britons began …
Animals | Courtship | Elite
Encyclopedia