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The rear view of two teddies seated with their arms wrapped around each other and the message in French 'Love is blind. AIDS: Learn, Protect yourself!'; with contact details for the Aids Info SIDA in Brussels. Colour lithograph by René Demarets, ca. 1997.

The two angels visitng Lot's house in Sodom pull him back into his house, away from the rapacious, blinded mob. Etching by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet.

Oliver Caswell and Laura Bridgman reading embossed letters from a book. Lithograph by W. Sharp, 1844, after A. Fisher.

A 'kuttar' or line of blind beggars in a row, two other men in discussion, Kabul, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph after L.W. Hart, 1843.

Christ heals the dumb and blind demoniac. Etching.

A pair of red eyes crossed through with purple lines. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.

Institution for the Blind, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Wood engraving.

William Taylor, a boy born blind, looking in a mirror after his sight had been restored by surgery. Etching by T. Worlidge, 1751.

The parable of the blind leading the blind: two blind men walk into a stream. Engraving after H. Bosch.

The hollow eyes of blind Tobit are anointed with fish gall by Tobias. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet, 1767, after R. Earlom after Agostino Carracci.

At the advice of the angel, Tobias carves up the fish to retrieve its medicinal properties. Etching.

A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.

Observations on hemeralopia; or, Nocturnal blindness, with cases, and practical illustrations / by Andrew Simpson.

On the nature, symptoms, and treatment of the different species of amaurosis, or gutta serena.

Failure of sight from railway and other injuries of the spine and head : its nature and treatment, with a physiological and pathological disquisition into the influence of the vaso-motor nerves on the circulation of the blood in the extreme vessels / by Thomas Wharton Jones.

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At the advice of the angel, Tobias carves up the fish to retrieve its medicinal properties. Etching.

A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.

Observations on hemeralopia; or, Nocturnal blindness, with cases, and practical illustrations / by Andrew Simpson.

On the nature, symptoms, and treatment of the different species of amaurosis, or gutta serena.

Failure of sight from railway and other injuries of the spine and head : its nature and treatment, with a physiological and pathological disquisition into the influence of the vaso-motor nerves on the circulation of the blood in the extreme vessels / by Thomas Wharton Jones.