Paintings, Prints & Drawings — 1819-05-01
Johnson, the First Rider on the Pedestrian Hobbyhorse
Denis Johnson, a coach builder, called his 1818 vehicle, copied from the Draissienne just produced in Paris by the Baron von Drais, a pedestrian curricle or velocipede, but the public preferred hobbyhorse, after the children's toy or, worse still, dandyhorse, after the foppish men who often rode them. This may be a later reprint of the Ackermann print of 1819: it has a long descriptive caption, but in such simple terms as to require that it is very early.
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- A16133
- Object name:
- Johnson, the First Rider on the Pedestrian Hobbyhorse
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Ackermann, Rudolph
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- Production date:
- 1819-05-01
- Material:
paper, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 226 mm, W 284 mm (paper)
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 60%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
- —
- Creative commons usage:
- CC BY-NC 4.0
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