Coach #1010
ca. 1870
Medium
Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache, metallic ink, and gum arabic
Dimensions
6 x 8 5/8 in. (15.2 x 21.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William Brewster, 1923
Accession Number
23.112.1494
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegant world of 19th-century transportation with *Coach #1010*, a exquisite design drawing by the renowned New York firm Brewster & Co., circa 1870. Founded in 1810, Brewster & Co. was America's premier carriage maker, crafting bespoke coaches for the elite, from presidents to robber barons. This small-scale rendering (just 6 x 8 5/8 inches) captures the firm's signature style: a sleek, luxurious four-wheeled coach poised for urban or country jaunts, emblematic of Gilded Age opulence before the automobile's rise. Rendered in pen and black ink with watercolor, gouache, metallic ...
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...