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some few years he lived at Bracknell in Berkshire, 

 afterwards taking up his quarters in London at 

 Lamb's Conduit Street. From the date of his 

 marriage until 1850 he was chiefly dependent for 

 his income on the pictures he sold. In the year 

 mentioned his mother died, and from her he 

 inherited a fortune which relieved him of the 

 necessity of earning his own living. 



The poverty courted by Charles Cooper Hen- 

 derson was the gain of later generations. He made 

 coaching scenes and incidents of the road his 

 speciality, and to him we owe many truthful pictures 

 of coaches and road travel in England and France 

 in the earlier part of the century. Many of his 

 works were engraved. Among these may be men- 

 tioned " English Post-boys," " French Postillions," 

 and "The Turnpike Gate," which were published 

 by Rudolph Ackermann in 1834. " Road Scrapings " 

 was the humorous title of a series of twelve plates 

 which Henderson himself etched for publication by 

 Calvert in 1840. These pictures consist of scenes 

 of coach travelling in England and diligence travel 

 in France ; they are full of national character and 

 have all the value of contributions to social histor)\ 



On only two occasions was Henderson represented 

 in the Royal Academy exhibitions ; in 1840 he sent 

 in "The Edinburgh and Glasgow Mails parting 

 Company," and in 1848 a French road scene, "The 



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