Design for 2 seat Phaeton, no. 3036
1874
Medium
Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with gum arabic
Dimensions
sheet: 6 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. (17.1 x 24.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William Brewster, 1923
Accession Number
23.112.659
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegant world of 19th-century coachmaking with *Design for 2 Seataeton, no. 3036* by Brewster & Co., created in 1874. This delicate drawing, measuring just 6 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches, captures the blueprint for a sleek, open-air phaeton—a light, four-wheeled carriage by the fashionable elite for leisurely drives. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Drawings and Prints department, it was generously gifted by William Brewster in 1923. ster & Co., renowned New York carriage makers, epitomized Gilded Age luxury during the horse-drawn era's final flourish, just before automobiles resh...
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...