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Coach Drawings, Manuscript MS 48.3, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Gift, 1948.
Some of the drawings are available on microfilm (M-121)
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.