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  • A man in drag, wearing a large bonnet, leans on a parasol whilst standing in front of a brick building. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A tayu (elite courtesan) on parade with her two kamuro (child attendants): a male attendant shields them with a parasol. Colour woodcut, ca. 1850 (?).
  • A clothed woman walking and bending to her right side to pick up a handkerchief she has dropped, holding a parasol in her left hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A high ranking man sitting under a parasol on an elephant, preceded by a group of soldiers on foot and followed by four soldiers on horseback. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Scadoxus multiflorus Raf. Amaryllidaceae. Blood Flower, Poison root, Fireball Lily. Distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa. The genus name is a concatenation of the Greek words, Sciadion meaning a parasol or umbel, and doxa meaning 'glorious'
  • Prinsep Ghat, Calcutta, India: the Princess of Wales (later Queen Mary), holding a parasol and accepting a jewel from the Chairman of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation, in front of a crowd of onlookers. Photograph, 1906.
  • Above, red-figured Greek cup (kylix?); below, detail of decoration showing an outdoor scene: a seated woman is attended by two servants, one is holding a parasol, the other is holding a jug. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • Crowds of people are out walking on Brighton pier: a woman is being pushed in a bath chair, a large lady is carrying a parasol, and three young women are being scrutinised by a variety of men. Wood engraving.
  • A woman in a bonnet and carrying a parasol is approaching a young woman who has a basket of eels on the ground and a young man who has a donkey with panniers full of fruit. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt after M. Egerton.
  • The birth tale of Candakumara: on the left, the god Indra descends from heaven to destroy a ceremonial parasol marking an evil ceremony created in order to sacrifice the hero Prince Candakumara. To the right Candakumara on the throne; he is about to be sacrificed on a pyre by the three evil brahimns who are seated before him
  • A wealthy man, holding an umbrella, sitting on a howdah (seat) placed on the back of a rug-draped Indian elephant. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Donde vá mamà?.
  • Donde vá mamà?.
  • Brahman merchant couple. Watercolour drawing.
  • A man and a woman, both wearing enormous hats. Etching by J. Gillray.
  • Eastern gate of the Jami Masjid at Delhi, India. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.
  • A Bombay square: some men carry sedan chairs and others smoke. Coloured aquatint after R.M. Grindlay, 1826.
  • Bazaar at Murshidabad, West Bengal. Etching by James Moffat, ca. 1808.
  • A blind man sits under an umbrella with his dog, a girl with her mother gives him some money, while a soldier and wife contemplate; the Seine and Louvre in the background. Aquatint, 1822.
  • Eleven men on a large stage set. Photographic postcard. 192-.
  • Eleven men on a large stage set. Photographic postcard. 192-.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): the funeral meru for the cremation of King Pinklao (second king), January 1866. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): the funeral meru for the cremation of King Pinklao (second king), January 1866. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Girls at play in a garden: the frontispiece to Routledge's Every girl's annual. Coloured wood engraving by E. Evans after Kate Greenaway.
  • Douglas Byng in drag as a pierrette. Photographic postcard, 1914-.
  • A young sailor follows a young woman wearing a lavish dress who is walking in a garden; belvedere in the background. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1850 (?).
  • Douglas Byng in drag as a pierrette. Photographic postcard, 1914-.
  • A prisoner of war acting in an internment camp in Dülmen, performing in drag, wearing a white dress and a dark hat. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A prisoner of war acting in an internment camp in Dülmen, performing in drag, wearing a white dress and a dark hat. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • The Peak, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1868/1871.