Baby carriage (pram)
Cochecito de bebé
- Date
- 1733 · confidence medium
- Place
- Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- William Kent
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A small carriage with a wooden shell for the baby, pulled by hand or by a goat or pony. Architect William Kent designed it for the Duke of Devonshire's children.
The attribution to Kent and Chatsworth comes from a well-documented tradition; the popular modern pram is attributed to Benjamin Potter Crandall (US, 1830) and Charles Burton (1848).
What it led to
- outings for babies for the Victorian middle class
- wicker prams with wheels and springs in the 19th century
- folding aluminium strollers and pushchairs of the 20th century