Design for Early Style Drag with No Top
ca. 1860
Medium
Hand colored commercially printed lithograph with gum arabic
Dimensions
sheet: 6 1/16 x 8 15/16 in. (15.4 x 22.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William Brewster, 1923
Accession Number
23.112.3029
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Brewster & Co. · 1837–present
**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...