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A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

A fashionable young lady with large plume in her hat being carried through the town in a sedan chair. Etching, c. 1796.

Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Pyrenees: the thermal baths and visitors. Lithograph by J. Jacottet and A. Bayot, 1841.

Hong Kong: a sedan chair at the foot of the Peak. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.

Fukien province, China: a sedan chair. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.

The carnival in Rome (?): an old man is playing the guitar and young women are gathered around a sedan chair carrying a man. Wood engraving after L. Alvarez Catalá.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

European men and women being transported by Indian men, in a coach drawn by oxen, in sedan chairs, and in a carriage pulled by men. Wood engraving, 1875.

Men preparing to carry a woman in a sedan chair. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

A group of men in turbans are carrying a litter, and attending to their passenger. Coloured aquatint by J. Wells after C. Gold.

Four men carrying a person reclining in a sedan chair. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

A dubash or steward of an Indian prince, carrying a two-pronged baton beneath his belt, walks by a shore under a parasol carried by an assistant (peon) followed behind by other figures carrying his sedan chair. Coloured aquatint by J. Hassell after C. Gold, 1800.

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Men preparing to carry a woman in a sedan chair. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

A group of men in turbans are carrying a litter, and attending to their passenger. Coloured aquatint by J. Wells after C. Gold.

Fukien province, China: a sedan chair. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.

Four men carrying a person reclining in a sedan chair. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

A dubash or steward of an Indian prince, carrying a two-pronged baton beneath his belt, walks by a shore under a parasol carried by an assistant (peon) followed behind by other figures carrying his sedan chair. Coloured aquatint by J. Hassell after C. Gold, 1800.