COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
09904
Record number:
09904-001
JCB call number:
D800 W444t
Image title:
American Stage Waggon
Creator 1:
Isaac Weld
Creator 1 dates:
1774-1856
Creator 1 role:
delt.
Creator 2:
James Sargant Storer
Creator 2 dates:
1771-1853
Creator 2 role:
sculpt.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
I. Stockdale
Image date:
1800
Image function:
plate; following p. 34
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
10.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
21 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
A stagecoach filled with passengers leaves the yard of a building. Next to the building or inn is a sign with an eagle on it. To the right of the coach is a fenced, cultivated field, recently cleared for agriculture.
Source creator:
Weld, Isaac, 1774-1856
Source Title:
Travels through the states of North America, and the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly
Source date:
1800
notes:
Weld was a member of the Irish gentry. This book was one of the earliest illustrated amateur travel accounts devoted to North America. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References exhibitions:
Danforth, S. Encourntering the New World, Fig. 73, Item 194
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Coaching