Derelict

In looking at this illustration from Willis J. Abbot’s 1897 book The Blue Jackets of 1812, I was confused. Why was it captioned “derelict”? The young lady depicted does not seem at all derelict to me. Perhaps there was a derelict inside the object she peers into? It took pages of reading for my thick skull to register that the hand-carried device she is peering into is the derelict in question. The pages recount the departure of the British after the Revolutionary war. The ostentatious carriage is abandoned, and a matter for the curiosity of a young lady.

I can be really dense sometimes.