Stage Waggon

by After Jacques-Laurent Agasse

$425 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine view of a wicker-work stage wagon on an English side road. The stage wagon, a much slower pre-cursor of the stage coach, made only from ten to fifteen miles in a long summer's day; that is, supposing them not to have broken down by pitching over the boulders laid along the road, or stuck fast in a quagmire, when they had to wait for the arrival of the next team of horses to help to drag them out. The wagon, however, continued to be adopted as a popular mode of

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