The London-Leeds Mail Coach
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1845
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
921 x 1200 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207829
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The London-Leeds Mail Coach, British (English) School, circa 1845. On the left a soldier waits by a signpost on a country road; a country-house in the distance; the signpost by which he stands shows that the coach has come from the direction of York. There is a female figure inside the coach, and three men on top, a coachman with a whip, a man seated beside him and a third at the back blowing a horn. Queen Victoria’s cipher on the coach; costume c.1845; A dog on the road in the centre jumps up at the horses. Queen Victoria's cipher is on the coach; the signpost shows that it has just come from York. Carriage drawing. Sotheby's 1939 Inventory has this listed as by Cordrey.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres by Elsie Kipling, Mrs Bambridge (1896-1976)
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist