Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Paris Diligence.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 14/Normal/Prints/Titles O-Pl GA 2014.00401
Identifier
ark:/88435/j3860g05z
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1827
Extent
1 item ; sheet 26.3 x 38.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 189 (1810)
Tegg no. 19
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: The Diligence is starting from a massively built and handsome innyard, the sign of the Coq en Pate. The "machine" is a cumbersome vehicle, clumsy and heavy to an incredible degree. It is drawn . . . By four strong, long, ill-favoured steeds, harnessed with ropes to the Noah's Ark-like contrivance, and ridden by two postillions, who are cracking their long thonged whips without producing much acceleration of speed in the toiling team . . . . A huge basket in front, about the size of a porter's lodge, is presumably the "luggage boot." Below this are two small and heavy wheels, while at the other end of the machine are two enormous hind-wheels.
Depiction: Through the unglazed space for windows are seen the occupants, who are travelling Pariswards: an assortment of corpulent and shaven monks, peasant women, and an old veteran with a formidable pigtail. A fashionable lady in feathers is ogling a beau wearing a powdered wig and enormous solitaire. The roof itself is loaded: another fat friar, with a shaven poll, is reading his book, over which is peeping a debonnaire damsel of redundant charms who is flirting a gigantic fan. An officer with an enormous cocked-hat and a massive club, has his hands in a muff of pantomimic magnitude. By his side is a lively grisette, with a parasol, another officer is reclining behind.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson del.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Transportation—France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Carriages and carts—France—Caricatures and cartoons
Travelers—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Coach horses—France—Caricatures and cartoons
City and town life—France—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d8d32daa-f2cb-45f4-bb2a-b9e3c2836441/manifest