Record ID:
209202
Accession number:
MA 153.4
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.
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