"A noblewoman on horseback," a painting from c.1700
Source:
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LotDetail.asp?sid=&intObjectID=4692212&SE=CMWCAT04+19807+%2D1962195499+&QR=M+1+44+Aqc0000900+16939++Aqc0000900+&entry=india&SU=1&RQ=True&AN=45
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"A NOBLEWOMAN ON HORSEBACK, CENTRAL INDIA OR WEST RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1700. Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the lady wearing a gold hat and seated on a bay stallion-9½ x 7¼in. (24.1 x 18.5cm.)."
"A Zenana Carriage," an albumen photo c. 1880's
Source: ebay, Sept. 2004
From The Graphic, 1887
Source: ebay, Aug. 2006
An overview of available travel methods; a German lithograph,
1888
"Fig. 1. Armed horsemen of the prince, 2. Hunting suite, 3. Elephant, saddle, huntsmen, 4. Chair porters, 5. Elephant, saddle-throne, prince and his suite, 6. Traveling cart of the poor, 7,8. Water merchant w/ bull, 9. Smoker, 10. Stage coach, 11. Leopard cage, 12. Traveling carriage, 13. Traveling carriage of rich people, 14. Stage coach, 15. Transportation carriage, 16. Yoke, 17. Plow, 18. Laborer, 19. Mattock, 20. Scythe, 21. Water vase."
Source: ebay, Sept. 2009
*"Ladies Tilting at the Ring, India," from the Illustrated London News, 1889*
Source: ebay, Sept. 2006
An albumen photo, c.1880's
Source: ebay, Nov. 2007
*"Mrs. Peppe," probably c.1893, from the album of John Mitchell Holms, a British officer*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2006
*"A Hindoo Marriage," by Edwin Lord Weeks, a photogravure of the painting, 1893*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2006
*"Dhoolie Bearers, Benares," photographed by Cambridge and Company, Bombay (1890s)*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2002
*"A Native Lady Getting Into a Train," an engraving from The Graphic, 1900* (lower left corner of the page)
Source: ebay, Nov. 2005
*An Englishwoman in a sedan chair at Pushkar, a photo, c.1900*
Source: ebay, May 2007
Source: ebay, Sept. 2008
*An Englishwoman in a sedan chair; an undated photo*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2008
*An Englishwoman preparing to drive her two-wheeled carriage, a photo from the 1920's*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2006
Traveling in a sedan chair; a photo by E. M. Newman (1872-1953), from the 1920's
Source: ebay, Jan. 2005
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