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Carriage for a noble or wealthy man to be carried by eight persons [used in China] – Vintage Wall Art

Carriage for a noble or wealthy man to be carried by eight persons [used in China], [between 1860 and 1910?] — historic drawing
Carriage for a noble or wealthy man to be carried by eight persons [used in China], [between 1860 and 1910?]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Carriage for a noble or wealthy man to be carried by eight persons [used in China]

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This color drawing shows a covered carriage, a sedan chair in form, meant to be borne by eight men, a number that signaled high rank or wealth in China. Such palanquins carried officials and well-off men through crowded streets and over rough roads, where wheeled vehicles were often impractical. The record places the drawing somewhere between 1860 and 1910, and it is catalogued within a 19th-century album of Russian drawings of China from the Gennadi Vasilevich Yudin Collection, so it likely reflects how a foreign observer recorded everyday Chinese travel. The date and attribution come from an older caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1910?]
Medium1 drawing : color.
NotesRef. Gennadi Vasilevich Yudin Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Carriages; Geog.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,308 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157692

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