A hackney coach or mode of conveyance at Amsterdam ... [drawing].

Record ID: 
209202
Accession number: 
MA 153.4
Author: 
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815.
Published: 
[180-?]
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description: 
1 drawing.
Notes: 

Title, taken from picture caption written in Fulton's hand below image, continues: ... This machine is calculated to excite laughter when compared with modern improvements to coaches ...
Picture caption, in pencil, upper right: This sketch was drawn by Robert Fulton, one of the greatest men that American ever produced. Benjamin Ray 1878.

Summary: 

Sketch of a carriage that is pulled on runners like a sleigh. A woman sits inside the carriage while it is hitched to a horse, guided by a pipe-smoking man wearing snowshoes.

Medium: 
Pencil on paper.
Dimensions: 
7 1/4 x 9 1/8 in. (184 x 233 mm.)
Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909; from the Hellman Collection.
Classification: