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Parasols

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Umbrellas

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Images from the collections

Images about Parasols

10 images from works
  • Burma: a lady attended by a servant bringing an elephant and another servant holding a parasol. Watercolour.
  • Donde vá mamà?.
  • Donde vá mamà?.
  • 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 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.
  • Burma: a lady attended by two standing bodyguards and by a servant holding a parasol. Watercolour.
  • Brahman merchant couple. Watercolour drawing.
  • 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.

Works from the collections

14 works

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    A pleasure garden: a rowing boat conveys a couple along a watercourse while, on the land, a woman with a parasol and a man admire the prospect of an old gatehouse in the distance. Etching, 16--.

    | Date: [between 1600 and 1699?] | Reference: 2914697i
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    Donde vá mamà?.

    Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828. | Date: 1796/1798 | Reference: 37147i
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    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.

    | Date: 1822 | Reference: 16331i
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    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.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 582758i
    Part of: Customers, trades, menial employments and handicrafts of Hindustan
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    A standing man dressed in white holding a blue and red parasol furled. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 2033499i
    Part of: A collection of Indian costumes, types and occupations. Gouache paintings by an Indian artist.
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Myanmar
Courts and courtiers
Elephants

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