Album of 29 presentation drawings of various types of carriages

Brewster & Co.

1870–78 · Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with gum Arabic · Drawings and Prints

This late-nineteenth-century album contains 29 colored presentation drawings of various carriage models from the firm Brewster & Co. They were bound in an album and send to a carriage manufacturer in Boston, Ferdinand F. French Carriage Company, who offered some of the Brewster & Co. carriages through his showroom. The album thus tells an important story about the nation-wide reach of the New York carriage manufacturing firm Brewster & Co. The drawings closely resemble other small presentation drawings by Brewster & Co. which are part of the Brewster & Co. carriage drawings archive, donated by the last owner of the business William Brewster

Artist

Brewster & Co.

Date

1870–78

Medium

Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with gum Arabic

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Ford Family Foundation and Paul Gauvreau Gifts and Mary Oenslager Fund, 2019