Horse Drawn Carriages 1795

These colourful lithographies are popular adornments especially with ladies. They are accurate copies of technical drawings made by one of London’s leading coachbuilders in 1794. The originals are held in the British Library at Euston. Published in 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited, these accurate copies were drawn by Alan Osbahr. These particular prints have striking gold and silver content highlighting the features of the carriages they portray. They are c. 38 x 25½ cm (14 ″ x 10 ″) on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm2. Shown here are scans of the prints.

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Town Coach
£20.00
Town Coach (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Landau
£20.00
Landau (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Travelling Coach
£20.00
Travelling Coach (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Elegant Crane Neck Coach
£20.00
Elegant Crane Neck Coach (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Neat Town Chariot
£20.00
Neat Town Chariot (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Laundaulet, or Demi Landau
£20.00
Landaulet, or Demi Landau (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Travelling Post-Chaise
£20.00
Travelling Post-Chaise (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Elegant Chariot
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Elagant Chariot (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Perch High Phaeton
£20.00
Perch High Phaeton (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Large Crane Neck Phaeton
£20.00
Large Crane Neck Phaeton (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Sociable
£20.00
iable (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Shooting Phaeton
£20.00
Shooting Phaeton (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1962 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Alan Osbahr
Size: c. 38 x 25.5 cm [14 ″ x 10 ″] – may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 140 g/sm²
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Felton’s Carriages

WE HAVE REMOVED SEVERAL LINKS FROM THIS SECTION BECAUSE OF A RUSSIAN CYBER-ATTACK ON THE BRITISH LIBRARY IN LONDON IN OCTOBER 2023 WHICH IMMOBILISED THEIR WEBSITE. WE HOPE THEIR OWN WEBSITE WILL BE RESTORED TO HEALTH SOON SO WE CAN RESTORE OUR LINKS TO THEM (September 2024).
In 1794 William Felton, a coach builder in Leather Lane, London, first published: “A treatise on carriages; comprehending coaches, chariots, phaetons, curricles, whiskies, &c. : together with their proper harness, in which the fair prices of every article are accurately stated.” An original copy of Felton’s original treatise can be viewed on the internet at the British Library. The tome was written 10 years before Obadiah Elliot patented the elliptical (or leaf) spring in 1804. Felton himself acknowledges that springs, including rudimentary forms of leaf and elbow spring, were in use in carriage building by the end of the eighteenth century. But Elliot’s patent so accelerated development of the leaf spring that it would quickly transform all forms of wheeled transport (and make Mr. Elliot rich). Felton mainly used leather strapping in a sophisticated series of connections between his carriages and their undrcarriages in order to deaden the inevitable turbulance of a ride in the days when highways were niether tarmaced nor macadamed. Such improvements to road surfaces (especially in the capital and other great urban centres) had enabled Carriages to begin to displace the clumsy heavy cart vehicles of earlier days as surfaces improved by the time of Felton. The Prince Regent led the fashion for driving. Horse and carriage became prized possessions instead of just conveyances: Town Coaches and Chariots for formal occasions; Landaus and Sociables for less formal occasions; owner-driven carriages and Phaetons for driving. Carriages were exported to Europe, the West Indies and America. Both main types had a high undercarriage: the “perch” with a straight or slightly curved wooden beam joining the axles and the “crane-neck”, with two curved iron beams under which the front wheels could turn. Here are 12 of Felton’s carriages reconstructed in rich lithograpy, many containing gold and silver.

These images are accurate copies of the original drawings by Felton: compare this drawing of a Town Coach from the British Library edition with the town coach print, the first in our collection.

The British Library adds: Jane Austen often uses carriages to convey information about the status and aspirations of her characters. Different kinds of carriage would have had particular connotations for readers of the time, which we cannot understand so easily today. In Emma, for example, Mrs Elton repeatedly refers to her sister and brother’s barouche-landau, which ‘holds four perfectly’ (Emma, II. xiv). A barouche-landau was an expensive four-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses, with two collapsible hoods – one for the front-facing passengers and one for the rear-facing passengers. It was a smaller version of a landau (Plate XXIV). Mrs Elton talks repeatedly about the barouche-landau in order to impress upon her neighbours how wealthy her family is.

A gig was a lighter, cheaper carriage with only two wheels, drawn by a single horse; a curricle was similar, but drawn by two horses instead of one. Both gigs and curricles were also known as chaises. They were suitable for men who wished to drive themselves, and, because of their lightness, they could travel very fast. Frank Churchill in Emma and John Thorpe in Northanger Abbey both drive two-wheeled chaises – a sign of their high spirits and impetuous natures. Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice also owns a gig, though this probably reflects his inability to afford a larger, grander carriage, rather than a love of speed.

Horse Drawn Carriages 1795

Town Coach

Town Coach (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Landau

Landau (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Travelling Coach

Travelling Coach (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Elegant Crane Neck Coach

Elegant Crane Neck Coach (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Neat Town Chariot

Neat Town Chariot (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Laundaulet, or Demi Landau

Landaulet, or Demi Landau (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Travelling Post-Chaise

Travelling Post-Chaise (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Elegant Chariot

Elagant Chariot (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Perch High Phaeton

Perch High Phaeton (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Large Crane Neck Phaeton

Sociable

iable (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Shooting Phaeton

Shooting Phaeton (scroll down for a more detailed Description)