Sujet

'Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School', the Strand, Westminster, London, 1819. Artist: Anon

Légende

Interior view of Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School in the Strand, Westminster, London, 1819. Fashionably dressed men riding hobby horses at a riding school at 337 Strand, London. The 'Hobby Horse' or 'Dandy Horse' was the forerunner of the bicycle and was invented by Baron von Drais in France in 1817. It was introduced the following year to England by Denis Johnson, a coachmaker of Long Acre London, who described it as a 'Pedestrian Curricle'.

Date

1819

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19A94_222

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

49,9Mo (4,3Mo) / 37,9cm x 33,0cm / 4482 x 3894 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation road London England people male interior indoors man men hat riding rider architecture street education hall science guy clothes school color colour lane avenue dress cycling cyclist roof Westminster bicycle bicycles bike location ceiling century coat inside top hat invention strand metaphor road Transport Architectural Feature 19th century Hobby Horse nineteenth century City of Westminster Guildhall Library & Art Gallery going round in circles Johnson's Pedestrian Hobby-Horse Riding School TGN The Strand aquatint Anon Anonymous Johnson Denis Baron Karl von Drais Drais Baron Karl von Denis Johnson