Signed and dated 1807, this watercolour, pencil and pen & ink work by Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) shows the arrival of the stagecoach at Bodmin, Cornwall.

Other versions of this celebrated composition are held in the Mellon Collection and the Royal Collection, Windsor – a testament to the popularity and significance of this particular scene within Rowlandson's coaching subjects. Rowlandson was among the most prolific and celebrated satirical watercolourists of Georgian Britain, and his depictions of travel, coaching inns and provincial life remain some of the most vivid records of everyday eighteenth and nineteenth-century English life.

Collectors of Thomas Rowlandson's work, Georgian coaching scenes, and compositions with royal/major museum comparanda will find this a fine, dated example of one of his most replicated and sought-after subjects.