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James Fittler, 1758–1835, British, Mail Coach, ca. 1787
- Title:
- Mail Coach
- Date:
- ca. 1787
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 13/16 × 11 5/16 inches (25 × 28.7 cm), Image: 8 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (21 × 26.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "D 3402"
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Lettered, lower left: "George Robertson del."; lower center: "To John Palmer Esq.r Surveyor and (coat of arms) Comptroller General of the Post Office; | This Plate of the MAIL COACH is respectfully Inscribed | by his obedient humble Servant James Fittler~"; lower right: "James Fittler sculp."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.9734
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bucket | carriage | chimneys | clouds | coach | crest | driving | galloping | genre subject | harnesses | holding | horses (animals) | horses (animals) | houses | inn | mail | men | oval | post office | pub | road | services, municipal | shouting | shovel | sign | thatch | trees | trunks | village | whips
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:52165
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Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Elisabeth Fairman, Roads to rails : revolution in British transport, , New Haven, CT, 1992, pp. 5, 10, no. 51, HE243 .F25 1992 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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