Panidochème ou toutes sortes de voitures: Dormeuse de voyage No.9 (after Victor Adam)
Charles Etienne Motte (1785-1836)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1827 - 1828
Materials
Paper
Measurements
271 x 350 mm
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206167
Summary
Lithograph, Panidochème ou toutes sortes de voitures: Dormeuse de voyage No.9 (after Victor Adam) by Charles Etienne Motte (1785-1836). Carriage drawing. Coloured engraving. One of a set of 12 prints of French travel scenes, Dormeuse de Voyage, Voitures 9. Designed by V. Adam, Lith de C. Motte. Chez Ch. Motte Imp Editeur a Paris. Embossed C. Motte Lithographe a Paris. Stuck on card. Signed Adam l.l. on sack.A sleeping carriage at centre, drawn by four horses and two horsemen; at left, a man converses with a passenger; another figure checks the reins; at far left, the edge of a building, with a couple of horses grouped nearby; in the immediate foreground, a sack and a pair of abandoned shoes; at far right, a cross tilting to the left; beyond at right, buildings glimpsed in the distance; from the first series of 'Panidochème ou toutes sortes de voitures'. 1827-28
Provenance
Part of the Bambridge Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Mrs Elsie Bambridge (1896-1976)
Makers and roles
Charles Etienne Motte (1785-1836), engraver (printmaker) after Victor Adam (Paris 1801 - Viroflay 1866), artist