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Album of 29 presentation drawings of various types of carriages

1870–78
Not on view
This late-nineteenth-century album contains 29 colored presentation drawings of various carriage models from the firm Brewster & Co. They were bound in an album and send to a carriage manufacturer in Boston, Ferdinand F. French Carriage Company, who offered some of the Brewster & Co. carriages through his showroom. The album thus tells an important story about the nation-wide reach of the New York carriage manufacturing firm Brewster & Co. The drawings closely resemble other small presentation drawings by Brewster & Co. which are part of the Brewster & Co. carriage drawings archive, donated by the last owner of the business William Brewster

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Album of 29 presentation drawings of various types of carriages
  • Artist: Brewster & Co. (American, New York)
  • Date: 1870–78
  • Medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with gum Arabic
  • Dimensions: 10 13/16 × 15 15/16 × 2 3/8 in. (27.5 × 40.5 × 6 cm)
  • Classifications: Albums, Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Ford Family Foundation and Paul Gauvreau Gifts and Mary Oenslager Fund, 2019
  • Object Number: 2019.206
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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