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Object Type
Museum number: 1880,1113.3560
Title: Object: Royal Mails preparing to start for the west of England
Description: Several mail coaches gathered in the courtyard of The Swan with Two Necks, men loading parcels and other figures leading horses. 1831 Hand-coloured aquatint with etching
Producer name: Print made by: Frederick Rosenberg; After: James Pollard; Published by: Jonathan Watson
School/style
Production date: 1831
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: aquatint; etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 450 millimetres; Width: 613 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The view is in Lad Lane, Cheapside. "The Swan with Two Necks" was the centre of William Chaplin's operations, the most successful coach proprietor, owning 68 coaching lines in 1838, and later an investor in the railways.
Bibliographic references: Siltzer 1929 / The story of British sporting prints (p.220); Crace 1878 / A Catalogue of Maps, Plans and Views of London, Westminster and Southwark, collected and arranged by Frederick Crace (XXI.45); Selway 1957 / The Regency Road, the Coaching Prints of James Pollard (51)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1880,1113.3560
Conservation

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