Title: The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field
Identifier: bookofhorsethoro00sidn (find matches)
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Sidney, Samuel, 1813-1883
Subjects: Horses; Horsemanship
Publisher: London ; New York : Cassell, Peter, Galpin
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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540 The Book of the Horse. while nearly as expensive, were much less difficult to produce in perfection, and infinitely less dangerous. The most original curricle of the last century, built at the order of that caricature of a dandy, Romeo Coates, was of copper, in the shape of a nautilus shell. The first carriage set up by Charles Dickens, after he awoke one morning and found himself famous, was a curricle. It was in a curricle that he drove to pay his first visit to the young and rising artist, the painter of " Dolly Varden," since a Royal Academician, W. P. Frith. A curricle is one of" the "properties" in the story of "Nicholas Nickleby." Count d'Orsay was the last dandy who drove a curricle in the Park, and sent this costly, magnificent carriage out of fashion, when he took up the cabriolet, as Whyte Mel- ville says, " with his whiskers and his cabriolet horse, he took the town by storm."
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THE CURRICLE. It was somewhere about 1846 that I saw the great Duke of Wellington driving himself in a sulphur-yellow curricle, with silver harness and bar, over old Westminster Bridge, to take part in a review at Woolwich; the late bridge was very steep, and he walked his horses up the ascent from Westminster. THE CABRIOLET. The cabriolet—which is still a favourite with a select few rich Guardsmen, fast stock- jobbers, and the survivors of the last generation of men about town, solely for Park use, and was the height of fashion in the early days of Queen Victoria's reign—is a curricle with a pair of shafts, and without the groom's rumble. Mrs. Gore, in one of her novels, makes it the carriage of a married couple of rank and limited fortune. That was before the in- vention of the one-horse brougham. It took the place for men not only of the curricle and the stanhope gig, but of the chariot and the i<is-d-vis, for every use except Court drawing- rooms. Palace Yard was full of cabriolets on the night of 1835, when Lord John Russell

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