Carriages

Charles Crace

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

No title page, plates published "by act of Parliament." Plate 1: Four wheel plain chariot with domed top, beaded roof band, finials, open panel in body. Plate 2: Four wheel chariot with domed top, beaded roof band, three finials, overal rococo molding around body. Plate 3: Two wheel chariot with pole, rear quarter panel articulated with double brass upholstery nails. Plate 4: Coach or Landau with four wheels, top shown with bows and joints, large boot beneath coachman's seat. Plate 5: Four wheel coach, domed top with four finials. Plate 6: Coach with domed top with center arch, four coronet finials, beaded roof band, upturned ends, wolf's head finial at top of rear pillar and end of perch.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Metropolitan Museum of Art