Coach Drawings, 18th-19th century.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Douglas Mayo
Phone: (757) 565-8521
Phone: (757) 565-8520
Fax: (757) 565-8528
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Librarian/ Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the holder of the copyright, if not the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg.

Preferred citation:

Coach Drawings, Manuscript MS 48.3, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Summary

Creator:
Samuel Hobson. John Hatchett.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Coach Drawings, Manuscript MS 48.3, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Background

Scope and content:

Hand-colored, ink and pencil drawings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century coaches or carriages. The drawings depict cabriolets, chariots, curricles, landaus, phaetons, and other types of coaches. Four of the drawings contain a brief description and price list on the back. They were possibly used as samples for prospective customers by an eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century English coachmaker. Several of the drawings contain the signature of Samuel Hobson, London, coachmaker. The collection also includes three drawings executed by John Hatchett.

Acquisition information:
Gift, 1948.
Physical description:
27 items.