Regency era wheelchair or gouty chair. Chair with reclining back, footrest, three brass wheels driven by handles in the armrests. Designed by Belgian inventor and automaton maker John Joseph Merin (1735-1803), and manufactured by Thomas Morgan and Joseph Sanders, Strand, London. Merlin’s mechanical chair. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from The Upholsterer's and Cabinet-Maker's Repository consisting of seventy-six designs of modern and fashionable furniture, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1830.

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