VIS-À-VIS
Body painted dark olive green, green gear. Trimmed in dark green.
The vis-à-vis was known as the sociable in England and appears with a panel body (as in this example) or with a basket-work body. When it was properly turned out, it was formally horsed with two horses of fifteen hands each and carried either one or two “trim dapper servants,” the groom being a trifle smaller and shorter, as it was not good taste to have the groom or footman show more height on the box than the coachman.
Given by the Webb family in memory of Dr. and Mrs. W. Seward Webb
