A single-horse carriage is stopped in front of a rustic inn or roadhouse, with two caricatured Frenchmen (one a postillion wearing enormous boots) engaged in changing out the horse. An occupant of the carriage hands money out the window to a peasant woman holding an infant and accompanied by a young boy; two other shabbily dressed figures are nearby next to a tree, one of them playing a makeshift drum. In the doorway of the building stands a young woman, and to the left a man under an archway stands with arms crossed; both watch the scene unfold. In the background a postilion rides away on horseback, whip extended into the air.
- Artist: Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, artist.
- Title: [Changing horses at Clermont] [art original] / F.G. Byron.
- Production: [France], [1790]
Drawer Drawings B995 no. 1
Acquired June 2023
