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  • Specification of William Edward Newton : artificial legs.
  • Specification of William Edward Newton : artificial legs.
  • Two athletes with artificial right legs walking. 1925
  • Two army veterinarians, one up a ladder examining one of four camels which has artificial front legs. Wood engraving by E.T. Reed, 1906.
  • Artificial lower leg
  • Artificial lower leg
  • Artificial lower leg
  • Artificial lower leg
  • Socket leg and artificial leg below the knee
  • Roman artificial leg of bronze.
  • John Sewers: artificial-leg maker's trade-card
  • Artificial left leg with thigh socket for amputation above the knee.
  • Artificial left leg with thigh socket for amputation above the knee.
  • Artificial left leg with thigh socket for amputation above the knee.
  • Artificial left leg with thigh socket for amputation above the knee.
  • Artificial right leg with thigh socket for amputation above the knee, aluminium.
  • Artificial right leg with thigh socket for amputation above the knee, aluminium.
  • Artificial right leg with thigh socket for amputation above the knee, aluminium.
  • Artificial right leg with thigh socket for amputation above the knee, aluminium.
  • Artificial lower leg with laced leather thigh socket. Made by W. R. Grossmith for amputation for the knee.
  • J. Luce de Lancival, a professor and poet, with an artificial leg walking with a group of men. Etching.
  • A man sells a woman an artificial leg at national health service prices. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A satyr with a wooden leg. Gouache.
  • Two old men in conversation: the man on the left holding a basket has a wooden leg, the other one leans with both hands on a stick. Watercolour by S.G. (?).
  • A man begging for alms at the side of a road is holding out his cap to a traveller on horseback. Engraving by James Peake, 1777, after J. Courtois, il Borgognone.
  • A man with a wooden leg carrying arms and legs in a basket; representing the relation between the whole and its parts in Aristotelian logic. Engraving by L. Gaultier, ca. 1613.
  • A man in ragged clothes walking with two crutches and a wooden leg. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • Three men help a sailor of their acquaintance who has slipped and broken his wooden leg by calling on a passing carpenter for help. Coloured engraving with etching.