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Object Type
Museum number: 1917,1208.2253
Title: Object: The Royal Mail's departure from the General Post Office, London
Description: Some mail coaches driving up and down the road and some being laden outside the Post Office, men and women standing near and others entering the building. 1830 Hand-coloured aquatint and etching
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Gilson Reeve; After: James Pollard; Published by: Jonathan Watson
School/style
Production date: 1830
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: aquatint; etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 502 millimetres; Width: 658 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The new general post office in St-Martins-le-Grand was opened in 1829.
Bibliographic references: Siltzer 1929 / The story of British sporting prints (p.219); Selway 1957 / The Regency Road, the Coaching Prints of James Pollard (47)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.2253
Conservation

Free entry