2-982-044 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Prince of Wales at Seville: Driving a Spanish "Turn-Out", from a sketch by our special artist, 1876. The future King Edward VII takes part in amusements in Spain: '...an outlandish kind of Spanish "turn-out"...[which] consisted of an ordinary brake or omnibus drawn by seven greys, put in pairs with the odd one leading. The horses were hung all over the head and the massive collar with large bunches of red tassels, the simple harness was of rope, and so were the reins. The coachman, who was dressed in a short jacket with a broad waistbelt and flat black velvet hat, duly drove the wheelers and the single leader; the other four horses were tied with their heads to the traces of the pair in front'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.