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Motorised invalid car, The Pultney Two Seater'.

A man sits filling his pipe by the fire, behind a man relieves himself against the wall. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid et filius after D. Teniers, the younger (?).

The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

A woman seated on a obstetrical chair giving birth aided by a midwife who works beneath her skirts. Woodcut.

Upholstery: two stages in padding an armchair. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

Feel good with Tsubo.

Figures in the Great Hall, Trinity Hospital, Edinburgh. Line engraving by T. Stewart after D. Wilson.

The chair on which the Duke of York (1763-1827?) died. Coloured engraving, ca. 1827.

Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.

A man sitting erect on a chair; representing pride as a type of the 'sentiment' of self esteem, a phrenological 'faculty'. Steel engraving by C. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

The interior of a tavern with men smoking and drinking by a barrel table and playing cards by the fire. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after D. Teniers.

Edward Jenner's chair in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, 1913.

Four Georgian gentlemen at their club seriously engaged in smoking. Stipple print by H. Bunbury, c. 1794.

The rates for hackney-coaches and chairs. By the Commissioners authorized and appointed for licensing and regulating hackney-coaches and chairs ... We do appoint Edward Castle to have the sole printing of this order. Sept. 20. 1711. Dan. Blake, A. Magny

Orders, by-laws, and ordinances, for the good government and regulating of the persons licensed to keep and drive hackney-coaches, and their renters and drivers. Made, publish'd, and declar'd, by John Way, Thomas Sutton, More Molyneux, Charles Barnard and

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Chairs

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The rates for hackney-coaches and chairs. By the Commissioners authorized and appointed for licensing and regulating hackney-coaches and chairs ... We do appoint Edward Castle to have the sole printing of this order. Sept. 20. 1711. Dan. Blake, A. Magny

Orders, by-laws, and ordinances, for the good government and regulating of the persons licensed to keep and drive hackney-coaches, and their renters and drivers. Made, publish'd, and declar'd, by John Way, Thomas Sutton, More Molyneux, Charles Barnard and

Chairs

Images from the collections

Images featuring Chairs

Works from the collections

The rates for hackney-coaches and chairs. By the Commissioners authorized and appointed for licensing and regulating hackney-coaches and chairs ... We do appoint Edward Castle to have the sole printing of this order. Sept. 20. 1711. Dan. Blake, A. Magny

Orders, by-laws, and ordinances, for the good government and regulating of the persons licensed to keep and drive hackney-coaches, and their renters and drivers. Made, publish'd, and declar'd, by John Way, Thomas Sutton, More Molyneux, Charles Barnard and

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