Album of 29 presentation drawings of various types of carriages
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)
Classification
Drawings|Albums
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Ford Family Foundation and Paul Gauvreau Gifts and Mary Oenslager Fund, 2019
Accession Number
2019.206
Tags
About the Artist
Brewster & Co.
**Brewster & Co.** Brewster & Company, a premier American coachbuilder renowned for its exquisite carriage designs, was established in 1810 in New Haven, Connecticut, by James Brewster (1788–1866). Born in 1788, Brewster trained as a wagonmaker's apprentice starting at age 16 in Northampton, Massachusetts, before relocating to New Haven, where he set up his workshop and quickly gained acclaim for...