1911 Pen and Ink Drawing of a Taxi cab

Title - The Taxi
 
Date - 1911
 
medium - Pen and Ink Drawing on paper
 
Signed - F.J.Wareham
 
Picture size - 12cm x 17.5cm / 4.75" x 7"
 
Outside frame size - 23.5cm x 29cm / 9.5" x 11.75"
 
Condition - Excellent
 
Frame - Antique Victorian / Edwardian oak picture frame with period glass
 
The Hackney Carriage Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1635 to legalise horse drawn carriages for hire but it was in 1903, eight years before this drawing, that the first taxi as we know it today with a meter appeared on London's streets followed by New York in 1907.