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A Rake’s Progressby William Hogarth 1735



A Rake’s Progress

by William Hogarth 1735(Indianapolis Museum of Art)



A Rake’s Progress

by William Hogarth 1735(Lewis Walpole Library)



“Jack in an O!ce or Peter Necessary with Choice of Chamber pots A Ticket for the -”

by William Hogarth(Lewis Walpole Library)



“The Theatrical Contest 1743”

1743(Lewis Walpole Library)



“The Covt Garden Morning Frolick”

by Louis Philippe Boitard 9 October, 1747 (The British Museum)



“ODDITIES”

by George Townshend 1757 (Lewis Walpole Library)



The Piazza - Covent Garden

by Thomas and Paul Sandby 1765(The British Museum)



The Piazza, Covent Garden

by Paul Sandby (The Royal Collection)



View of St. James Place and Pall Mall

by William James Mid 18th Century



Teapot

Fürstenberg, Germany c. 1765 - 1770(Lewis Walpole Library)



“THE FEMALE ORATORS”

for Jno. Smith, printed by M. Rennoldson 1768(Lewis Walpole Library)



“Sir Fopling Arrested: Drawn from a late rural Scene.”

by Robert Sayer 1769(Lewis Walpole Library)



Scene in a London Street

by John Collet c. 1770(Yale Center for British Art)



“Is this my Daughter Ann”

by James Watson 1774(Lewis Walpole Library)



Madge Leaving in a Sedan Chair”

by William Hibbart after drawings by C.W.Bampfylde 1776(RareOldPrints.com)



Madge Carried in a Sedan Chair”

by William Hibbart after drawings by C.W.Bampfylde 1776(RareOldPrints.com)



“THE LADIES CONTIVANCE”

by M. Darly 1777 (Lewis Walpole Library)



Design for a Sedan Chair for Queen Charlotte

by Robert Adam 1775



“The RETURN from a MASQUERADE... A MORNING SCENE.”

by Carington Bowles(The British Museum)




by Carington Bowles(The British Museum)




by Carington Bowles 1784(Victoria & Albert Museum)



“A SCOTCH BREEZE, scene New Bridge EDINGURGH”

by Isaac Cruikshank 1784(The British Museum)



by Thomas Rowlandson (Late 18th Century)

(The British Museum)



Woman being Carried in a Sedan Chair

by Robert Dighton c. 1780 - 1790(The Museum of London)



“The Manner of TRAVELLING, as practiced by the PEOPLE of CONGO in AFRICA.”

after Theodor de Bry (1528 - 1598) 18th Century (Victoria & Albert Museum)



Sedan Chair

c. 1725 - 1775(Victoria & Albert Museum)



French “Seascape” Sedan Chair

c. 1725 - 1740(Versailles)



Model of a French Sedan Chair c. 1760

(Getty Images)



Queen Charlotte’s Sedan Chair by Robert & James Adam c. 1775

(Mint Museum of Art)



Sedan Chair for Queen Charlotte

(Winsor Castle)



Sedan Chair 1775 - 1800

(Museum of London)



Leather Covered Sedan Chair

18th Century (Christies Auction House)



Model of a French Sedan Chair 18th Century

(Getty Images)



Sedan Chair

Late 18th Century (Ulster Folk & Transport Museum)



French Sedan Chair

Late 18th Century (Private Collection)



Sedan Chair Scene from Commedia dell'arte

by Claude Gillot (1673-1722)



French Sedan Chair Modelc. 1775

(Getty Images)



“Needs must when the Devil Drives” London 1756

(Lewis Walpole Library)



“Needs must when the Devil Drives” London 1756




Punch Bowl with Wheeling Chair Bow Porcelain Factory, London c. 1760

(Victoria & Albert Museum)



Richard, Mary, and Peter: The Children of Peter & Mary du Caneby Arthur Devis 1747

(Harris Museum & Art Gallery)



The Thomas Cave Family

by Arthur Devis 1749(Sotheby’s)



The Children of Philip Grymes & His Wife, Mary Randolph of Middlesex County, Virginia

by John Hesselius 1751



“FRONTISPIECE. All hail Dalblair! hail tot he Lord of Auchinleck!” by Thomas Rowlandson 1786




“Recruiting Sergeant and Contented Mates”

by Robert Wilkinson 1780



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