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Umbrellas

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  • Nurses being lectured on bandaging using a mannequin on a hospital ward. Drawing by J. Belon.
  • Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
  • A character dressed eccentrically, holding an umbrella and walking on raised shoes. Etching.
  • Theodora de Verdion, an eccentric teacher of languages, a book seller and collector of medals. Engraving, 1803.
  • London Ophthalmic Infirmary, and the Catholic church, Finsbury. Coloured engraving by R. Acon after T. H. Shepherd.
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    A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.

    | Date: [1854-63] | Reference: 26335i
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    A man selling bellows and another selling umbrellas. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.

    Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818. | Date: [approximately 1813?] | Reference: 30544i
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    Henry Hansard. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini (Ape), 1884.

    Pellegrini, Carlo, 1838-1889. | Date: Nov. 29 1884 | Reference: 820879i
    Part of: Vanity fair (London, England : 1868)
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    George Ridding. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1901.

    Ward, Leslie, Sir, 1851-1922. | Date: August 15th 1901 | Reference: 823417i
    Part of: Vanity fair (London, England : 1868)
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    A woman standing at the wet roadside holding an umbrella against the rain. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.

    Cusden, Leonard. | Reference: 32582i
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