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Types of steam-driven vehicles and flying machines. Colour process print after Robert Seymour, ca. 1830.
- Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.
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- [between 1900 and 1999]
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Credit: Types of steam-driven vehicles and flying machines. Colour process print after Robert Seymour, ca. 1830.
Credit: Wellcome Collection.
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Description
On the unreliability of new, steam-driven methods of transport (pedestrian, cart, aviation, coach, and ship)
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1900 and 1999]
Physical description
1 print : process print ; image 16.2 x 22.8 cm
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Lettering
Locomotion. Plate 2nd. A few small inconveniences. There's nothing perfect. Seymour del. Shortshanks sculp.
Publications note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. XI, London 1954, no. 16438
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 36878i
Creator/production credits
According to Dorothy George in the British Museum catalogue, Shortshanks was a pseudonym of Robert Seymour (op. cit., p. 805)
Reproduction note
Original published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
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- English
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