by Sprake:
by Godden:
A very rare example of The Good Old Days subject is mounted on a very large card with the credit: "T. E. Carter, Carver and Gilder, Coventry". Here, the silk picture is the standard Stevengraph with an enlarged title in two colours - THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF RATTLING WHEELS AND GALLENT GREYS (above).
The window is slightly larger than the standard Stevens size - being 6 3/8inches long as opposed to about 5 9/10inches - and the overall size of the gilt frame is 17 inches by 10 1/2inches, resulting in the largest recorded example of a Victorian framed Stevengraph picture.
No Stevens credit or back-label occurs on these rare special Carter mounted specimens. A matching pair to this subject is listed under THE PRESENT TIME [st472 on this site.]
A normal-size version with the same long title - THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF RATTLING WHEELS AND GALLENT GREYS - in two Colours is also, but rarely, found. This version, too, was probably specially mounted by T. E. Carter, but the silk pictures are true Stevengraphs.
Other comments:
In the example above, the T. E. Carter, Carver and Gilder name is not visible.
