Cabriolet
Loretta reports:
The heroine of
Dukes Prefer Blondes
drives her own vehicle—a cabriolet, as pictured at left— and there's quite a bit of traveling in the story, in various kinds of vehicles, including the
hackney cabs and coaches I recently described
.
This short video offers s a chance to watch horses and carriages in action. Note that many of the vehicles are earlier than the time of my story, and some are quite modern, made specially for extreme carriage racing.
Image: John Ferneley,
William Massey-Stanley Driving His Cabriolet in Hyde Park
1833, courtesy Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Published on January 14, 2016 21:30