The London to Windsor Stage-Coach
attributed to William Heath (London 1795 - Hampstead 1840)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
324 x 359 mm. (12 3/4 x 14 1/8 in.)
Place of origin
Windsor
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515736
Summary
Oil painting n canvas, The London to Windsor Stage-Coach attributed to William Heath (London 1795 - Hampstead 1840). Coach in centre, passengers on top in front, at the back and inside, travelling to the right, drawn by four white dappled horses, behind it and to the left, just within the picture is another coach, also full of passengers, trees behind and in the far distance, just to the right of centre is the Round Tower of Windsor Castle with a flag flying from a mast in the centre of the Tower. Carriage drawing.
Provenance
With Gooden & Fox; date of acquisition by Lord Fairhaven is unknown; bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to William Heath (London 1795 - Hampstead 1840), artist
References
Bunt 1949 Cyril G. E. Bunt, Windsor Castle through Three Centuries, 1949, pp. 46, 66, No. 35: “Another interesting item is the coloured caricature The Wits of Windsor, a Milton-ian Pun published by Fores in 1827. It represents two coaches, one overtaking the other. The driver of the first says: ‘I’m the Regulator Mat’, to which the overtaking coachman replies: ‘Yes, we know it Jack! For we all go by you.’ This rather ponderous piece of nineteenth-century humour was engraved from the original oil painting by Heath which is in the Fairhaven Collection. It is entitled The London – Windsor Coach. Windsor Castle is seen in the distance and it is interesting to note that the Round Tower is shown as it was before Wyatville’s additions of 1828….” “Part I OIL PAINTINGS 35. HEATH, WILLIAM (1785 [sic]-1840?) The London-Windsor Coach Oil on canvas 14 ½ x 20 ½ in. [Engraved in 1827, as The Wits of Windsor (see 488)]