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Maker(s):Cruikshank, George
Culture:British (1792-1878)
Title:The Comforts of a Cabriolet! or, The Advantages of Divina Hoodwink'd!!
Date Made:1821
Type:Print
Materials:etching with hand color
Place Made:Europe; England; London
Measurements:Mount: 12 in x 17 5/8 in; 30.5 cm x 44.8 cm; Sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 7/8 in; 28.9 cm x 42.9 cm; Plate: 10 5/16 in x 15 11/16 in; 26.2 cm x 39.8 cm; Image: 8 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in; 21.6 cm x 36.8 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2006.17
Credit Line:Gift in memory of Douglas R. Borlen (Class of 1948)
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
George, No. 14309
A scene in Hyde Park, one of the gates and adjacent houses in the background. Three cabriolets in violent and burlesqued collision, the raised hoods forming blinkers for the occupants. One horse (l.) is on its knees; another (r.) is on its head, the shaft of its two-wheeled carriage piercing the belly of the horse in the centre which rears wildly, trampling on a poodle. Each carriage contains the (dandified) driver and a friend, one being a woman losing her huge bonnet; these are being violently tipped out. Each has a groom behind; two are flung into the air. Clouds of dust rise from the melee.

The cabriolet had long been fashionable in France. The form depicted is an innovation in England. The cabriolet (soon 'cab') for hire, with the driver's seat partitioned off, was introduced in April 1823. Cf. No. 15479
Reid, No. 977. Cohn, No. 1003. Reissued, Cruikshankiana, 1835

(from George, vol. X)

Tags:
caricatures; carriages; driveways; horses; humor; parks; public spaces; roads; satire; text; transportation; travelers

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