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  • A young couple walk along the road and the man holds an umbrella over the young woman to protect her. Lithograph.
  • A man sits at a table under a large umbrella with people watching him as he writes a letter. Wood engraving.
  • A family group out in heavy rain, the woman is under an umbrella, the disgruntled husband is following with two children. Lithograph.
  • The wind has caught the umbrella of a man who is skating, causing him to collide with another man. Etching by J. Gillray, 1805.
  • A drunk man holding a broken umbrella is leaning against the railings of a park; children around him. Drawing by L.(?) Harris, ca. 1890.
  • A physician in his surgery examining a little boy's tongue, his sister waits for him holding a large umbrella. Wood engraving after H.B. Roberts.
  • Children playing at creating the effect of a wet day with bellows, watering-can and an umbrella. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.
  • A happy tooth holding an umbrella; representing the introduction of canal closure (?) by the dental services of the Beijing Bureau of Health. Colour lithograph, 2005.
  • Gladstone is being confronted by J.S. Blackie regarding his foreign policy; Lord Rosebery wearing a crown and holding an umbrella in the background. Engraving, 1880.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: the Director presenting an umbrella to A. D. Lacaille, the museum's archaeologist, on his retirement in 1959. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: the Director presenting an umbrella to A. D. Lacaille, the museum's archaeologist, on his retirement in 1959. Photograph.
  • A woman is selling fruit from her market stall, set up under a large umbrella, to a woman who has two small children with her. Colour lithograph.
  • Above, black lamp; below, drinking vessel with two handles, decorated with a winged figure holding an open box and an umbrella. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • 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.
  • A group of people with leprosy in Jerusalem: a man in a striped suit leaning on an umbrella has his hand on the head of one of them. Photograph.
  • A man sitting in a portable chair carried by four bearers along with a servant holding an umbrella, lead by a man with a sword. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A couple with their child beneath an umbrella bearing the letters 'PF: National Programme of family planning in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé et de l'Action Sociale, ca. 2000.
  • People stand under a freestanding green umbrella which protects them from the rain; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.
  • The evolution of a shuttlecock and bats into a sheep into a timid young man, and his hat into a baby into his umbrella; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • A soldier plays a drum as a man with a chained bear with its arms held back by an umbrella is making it dance to entertain the crowd. Lithograph by Benjamin Roubaud, 1833.
  • Two women wearing bonnets and glasses are sitting on chairs gossiping; a woman in a fine dress and large fancy bonnet walks down the street with a man with an umbrella beside her. Etching.
  • 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.
  • A man and woman standing beneath an umbrella bearing safe sex messages as the centrepiece of a calendar for 1996 by the STD/AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Colour lithograph by Tahley (?), 1996.
  • A man and woman standing beneath an umbrella protecting them from rain pouring down from the word 'AIDS; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the STD/AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Colour lithograph, 1996.
  • A woman with a wig in one hand and an umbrella in the other stands shouting as a man cleans the barrel of a rifle and a dog stands nearby with a bone in his mouth. Stipple engraving by H. Bunbury.
  • A man and woman standing beneath an umbrella protecting them from rain pouring down from the word 'AIDS; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the STD/AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda with the assistance of USAID. Colour lithograph, 1996.
  • Above, red-figured Greek bowl (situla?) decorated with a palm motif and a woman holding a casket; below, detail of the decoration showing a naked man and a seated woman (Aphrodite?) holding an umbrella and a mirror. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • A man with a carpetbag and an umbrella enters a lodging house and asks for a room, but the landlady rejects his request, thinking that his carpetbag identifies him with a man who had defrauded other lodging houses. Wood engraving after Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Krsna enchants the natural and human worlds with his flute. Standing in the tribhangi or 'three bends' posture, Krsna plays the flute as enchanted gopis, cattle, and birds look on. A clump of trees act as a sheltering umbrella, the symbol of gods and kings in Indic iconography.
  • Krsna enchants the natural and human worlds with his flute. Standing in the tribhangi or 'three bends' posture, Krsna plays the flute as enchanted gopis, cattle, and birds look on. A clump of trees act as a sheltering umbrella, the symbol of gods and kings in Indic iconography.