A wealthy Indian Nabob carried on a canopied palanquin. He sits on a cushioned bed, smoking a hookah water pipe carried by a servant. Another servant holds a parasol. The carved litter is decorated with tassels. Nabab allant a la Promenade dans un Palanquin. Copperplate engraving by Jean-Baptiste Marie Poisson after an illustration by Pierre Sonnerat from his Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine (Voyage to the East Indies and China, Dentu, Paris, 1806.
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