[Stevengraph]

The Good Old Days [a landscape Stevengraph depicting a heavily-laden Royal Mail coach being drawn by four horses, with a plain background]

Coventry, Woven in Silk by Thomas Stevens, Inventor and Manufacturer, [1880s].

An image woven in coloured silk, mounted behind the publisher's original captioned window mat (visible image size 49 × 149 mm), behind glass in a later simple wooden frame (external dimensions 142 × 215 mm).

Light tide-mark to the top left-hand corner of the mat; frame shows trifling signs of age; overall in very good condition.

'The basic picture was first issued under the title "The London & York ... Coach" ... and as such it was one of the first two Stevengraphs introduced at the York Exhibition in the summer of 1879. Within a few months, the picture was retitled "The Good Old Days" ... A later, post-1889, issue under the same title is the same coach and horses with the addition of a winter landscape woven in the background' (stevengraph-silks, an invaluable resource).

Item #120382

Price (AUD): $110.00
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