1911 Pen and Ink Drawing of a Taxi cab
SKU: 9012
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.
£575.00Price