BIB_ID
209202
Accession number
MA 153.4
Creator
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815.
Published
[180-?]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
Picture caption, in pencil, upper right: This sketch was drawn by Robert Fulton, one of the greatest men that American ever produced. Benjamin Ray 1878.
Title, taken from picture caption written in Fulton's hand below image, continues: ... This machine is calculated to excite laughter when compared with modern improvements to coaches ...
Title, taken from picture caption written in Fulton's hand below image, continues: ... This machine is calculated to excite laughter when compared with modern improvements to coaches ...
7 1/4 x 9 1/8 in. (184 x 233 mm.)
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909; from the Hellman Collection.
Summary
Sketch of a carriage that is pulled on runners like a sleigh. A woman sits inside the carriage while it is hitched to a horse, guided by a pipe-smoking man wearing snowshoes.
Medium
Pencil on paper.
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