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  • A line of sedan chairs waiting beside a railway track, in Korea.
  • A Bombay square: some men carry sedan chairs and others smoke. Coloured aquatint after R.M. Grindlay, 1826.
  • Hong Kong: westerners promenading and taking sedan chairs along Kennedy Road. Wood engraving after C.J. Uren, 1883.
  • A bride and a bridegroom talking to one another as they are carried separately in sedan chairs. Tinted lithograph by F. Jones, 1860, after G.F. Atkinson.
  • 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.
  • a sedan chair. Photograph by John Thomson
  • Sedan chair of Professor James Hamilton, last used in Edinburgh
  • Bearers in China carrying a sedan chair suspended between poles. Wood engraving.
  • Hong Kong: a sedan chair at the foot of the Peak. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Hong Kong: a sedan chair at the foot of the Peak. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • A Chinese high ranking official carried on a sedan chair. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A Chinese high ranking official carried on a sedan chair. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A woman in Naples is being carried in a sedan chair by two men. Engraving by R. Boissard.
  • A procession of six Chinese figures, some carrying a sedan chair. Gouache by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • An ornate sedan chair with a state crown on top. Engraving by P. Begbie, 1775, after R. Adam, 1771.
  • India: Ludlow Castl, Delhi,e with a sedan-chair and attendants in the garden. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • A bride emerging from a sedan chair assisted by two women, set in a palatial residence. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1847/1850.
  • A fashionable young lady with large plume in her hat being carried through the town in a sedan chair. Etching, c. 1796.
  • A fashionable young lady with large plume in her hat being carried through the town in a sedan chair. Etching, c. 1796.
  • A man alights from a sedan chair to meet his companions at the foot of the stairs. Engraving by Brown after Corbould.
  • Actors in role: mayhem as a woman travelling in a sedan chair is attacked by women warriors. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1860.
  • A Chinese procession in honour of the god of spring: a Mandarin is shown being carried in a sedan chair. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
  • A patient covered by heavy blankets being carried away from the baths at Aix les Bains on a sedan chair by two uniformed men. Photograph.
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a European woman being carried in a sedan chair by two native men in uniform. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1821.
  • Two men sitting with a sedan chair in a Hong Kong street waiting for custom, one smokes his pipe. Wood engraving by J.C. after J. Thomson.
  • Marat, seated in a sedan chair, is carried in a triumphant procession of the revolutionary mob in the street of Paris. Engraving by W. Greatbach after T. Johannot.
  • Marat, seated in a sedan chair, is carried in a triumphant procession of the revolutionary mob in the street of Paris. Engraving by W. Greatbach after T. Johannot.
  • 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 man with the head of a fox (Henry Fox) is pulling the king's sedan chair, and calls for help from George Bubb Dodington, who is drinking in an inn. Etching, 1757.
  • The pump room, Bath. Line engraving by H.S. Storer, 1818, after himself.