Sedan Gallery

Vintage Car and grand building

An enormous open-top saloon/sedan luxury car standing in front of an impressive arcaded facade/entrance to a large building. The owner of this impressive vehicle stands alongside in full tweed and plus-fours

© Mary Evans/Michael Cole Automobilia Collection

Arcaded, Auto, Automobile, Automobilia, Building, Car, Classic, D River, Driving, Facade, Grand, Historical, History, Impressive, Large, Luxury, Motor, Motoring, Old, Open, Owner, Saloon, Sedan, Sepia, Spare, Steps, Top, Transport, Tyre, Vehicle, Vintage

The Lamplighter, Watchman and Link-boy

The Lamplighter, Watchman and Link-boy. London lamplighter with ladder and fuse lighting streetlamps 55, watchman in great coat with lantern and rattle 56, and link-boy with torch guiding a couple along a dark alley 57. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Isaac Taylor from City Scenes, or a Peep into London, by Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor, published by Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, London, 1828. English sisters Ann and Jane Taylor were prolific Romantic poets and writers of children's books in the early 19th century

© Florilegius

A jingle or carriage accident on a bridge in Dublin, 1822

A jingle or carriage accident on Low Ground Bridge, Baggot Street, Dublin. Passengers fall off the bridge into the canal, men with shillelaghs shout. Brian Boru, Sir Shawn O'Dogherty, Capt. Grammachree and Poll Kettlewell, upset in a jingle coming from the Black Rock. Handcoloured engraving from Pierce Egan's Real Life in Ireland, or the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney, of Brian Boru Esq. and his Elegant Friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty, published by William Evans, London, 1829

© Florilegius