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Description: | Watercolour on paper. This watercolour painting by John Lavery showing a woman riding a tricycle also includes the gate and lodge of Cartbank on Netherlee Road, Glasgow, a small Georgian villa, built in c.1770. Cartbank was the family home of Lavery’s friend, the painter Alexander MacBride. MacBride had established a tennis court in the grounds of the house and it was here that Lavery watched tennis matches in the summer of 1885, resulting in his series of paintings of the sport.
The first commercial manufacture of bicycles was in Paris, when Pierre and Ernest Michaux produced two machines in 1861, 140 in 1862 and over 400 annually by 1865. By 1880 there were approximately 230 cycle clubs in the UK, around 70 of which were in London. The ‘Ordinary’, or penny farthing, developed into safety bicycles and tricycles like the example seen here, which first appeared in 1879. These were steadily improved in design until about 1890, when the earliest examples of the form of bicycle we know today were manufactured. | Subjects: | tricycle tree woman 19th century costume house road stone wall bicycle | Temporal: | 1885 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Sir John Lavery | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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