A coach heavily laden with passengers, some on the top, is being driven at speed around a hairpin bend on the St Gothard pass. Electrotype after a wood engraving after R. Doyle.

The Capitoline hill, Rome, seen from the foot of the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

1 print : electrotype ; image 16.5 x 18 cm

1 print : etching ; platemark 43.5 x 62.3 cm

1 print : stipple engraving, in oval ; image 31.3 x 38.3 cm

Young George Philpot invites Corinna to accompany him on a pleasure trip to Epsom, and insults his father, who listens while hiding under the table. Stipple engraving by T. Burke, 1792, after H. Singleton.

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Driving of horse-drawn vehicles

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A coach heavily laden with passengers, some on the top, is being driven at speed around a hairpin bend on the St Gothard pass. Electrotype after a wood engraving after R. Doyle.

The Capitoline hill, Rome, seen from the foot of the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Young George Philpot invites Corinna to accompany him on a pleasure trip to Epsom, and insults his father, who listens while hiding under the table. Stipple engraving by T. Burke, 1792, after H. Singleton.