2-888-785 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Arrival of the Coach - a Roadside Inn a Century Ago - painted by T. F. Marshall, 1850. '...Mr. T. F. Marshall's single contribution to the Royal Academy Exhibition [in London]. It hangs in the Octagon Room, but merits a better place: 634 [in the catalogue]...This is a delightful picture of domestic life. The gossiping group in the foreground - the delighted passengers - the country girl meeting her relatives - the attention of the landlady to the passengers of the better class - are very characteristic; and the old inn, with its quaint sign-board, is picturesquely treated'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.