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  • Small hearing aid of silver, Paris
  • Mark Smith with historical and contemporary hearing aids
  • Mark Smith with historical and contemporary hearing aids
  • Mark Smith with historical and contemporary hearing aids
  • Mark Smith with historical and contemporary hearing aids
  • Mark Smith with historical and contemporary hearing aids
  • Sketch showing organ of hearing - natural size.
  • The bones of the ear and of hearing. Etching, 1743.
  • Unmarried mothers being brought before a court hearing and judged severely. Woodcut.
  • Adam and Eve hearing the judgement of the Almighty. Mezzotint by J. Martin.
  • A woman sitting at an organ; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving, 16--.
  • Chelsea Pensioners and others hearing the news of Wellington's victory at Waterloo. Etching.
  • A group of musicians; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by A. Bosse, c. 1650.
  • A chair designed for use by the deaf, incorporating a hearing device. Engraving with etching, 1770/1830?.
  • A stockbroker feigning deafness to avoid paying the man who claims to have restored his hearing. Coloured etching, 1786.
  • A stockbroker feigning deafness to avoid paying the man who claims to have restored his hearing. Coloured etching, 1786.
  • Hearing aid for constant use. Two light cornets of imitation tortoiseshell joined by metal spring forming a head-band. Introduction of this form of instrument attributed to Napoleon's surgeon D. J. Larrey (1776-1842).
  • A woman playing the barrel-organ; representing the sense of hearing. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • Boer War: a large crowd in Cape Town on hearing news of the relief of Kimberley. Halftone, 1900, after J. Bruton.
  • A young woman faints on hearing the news of the death of General Wallenstein (?). Line engraving with etching by Peter Carl Geissler.
  • A courtroom hearing a paternity suite: a lawyer pleads for his client before the bench. Engraving by P. Tanjé, 1752/1761, after C. Troost.
  • An ill man throwing a tantrum and a hot-water bottle after hearing his rubber shares have gone down. Process print after S. Wood, 1912.
  • Chelsea Pensioners hearing the news of the battle of Waterloo, outside the Duke of York public house. Engraving by J. Burnet, 1831, after D. Wilkie, 1822.
  • A young woman dressed in white faints after hearing the predictions of a fortune-teller. Engraving by L.S. (?) L'Empereur after H. van Gorp, 1800/1810.
  • A woman plays music to a stag; God condemns Adam and Eve to exile; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • A treatise of the organ of hearing, containing the structure, the uses and diseases of all the parts of the ear / Translated from the French [by John Marshall].
  • A treatise of the organ of hearing, containing the structure, the uses and diseases of all the parts of the ear / Translated from the French [by John Marshall].
  • Chelsea Pensioners hearing the news of the battle of Waterloo, outside the Duke of York public house. Engraving by W. Greatbach after D. Wilkie, [between 1822 and 1894].
  • Ten demonstrations of digestion, blood circulation, breathing, bone structure, smell, hearing, sight, touch, taste, the nervous system, and muscle structure. Coloured lithograph by C. Bethmont, ca. 1860 (?).
  • Ten demonstrations of digestion, blood circulation, breathing, bone structure, smell, hearing, sight, touch, taste, the nervous system, and muscle structure. Coloured lithograph by C. Bethmont, ca. 1860 (?).