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  • The risen Christ shares supper with two men at Emmaus. Engraving.
  • While the holy family rest on the way to Egypt, an angel bends a palm tree to provide them with dates. Etching.
  • Two Greenwich Pensioners sitting in the garden of a tavern, near the Hospital, a woman behind listening to them, another Pensioner in the distance on the right. Mezzotint, 1791.
  • An old couple sitting, the man leans over on his walking stick to listen to the woman reading from the bible. Line engraving after G. Dou.
  • Two physicians in "macaroni" fashions. Etching by J. Johnson after J.W.B. (Bretherton?), 1772.
  • The Virgin Mary and the Christ child, with Saint Augustine, Saint George, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Stephen and an angel with a lily. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after F. Francia.
  • The apostles Peter and John heal the lame man. Process print after Raphael.
  • Two blind beggars, one stands with a placard around his neck and hat, the other kneels with a dog on his lap. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A 'kuttar' or line of blind beggars in a row, two other men in discussion, Kabul, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph after L.W. Hart, 1843.
  • Moses with his rod and his brazen serpent. Engraving by J. Hall, 1793, after B. West.
  • Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Watercolour after L. Boilly, ca. 1823.
  • Charity being given to poor hungry beggars by a rich household. Engraving by L. Audran after S. Bourdon.
  • Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving by B. Cole.
  • A woman teaching an infant to read; representing grammar. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.
  • Theodora de Verdion, an eccentric teacher of languages, a book seller and collector of medals. Engraving, 1803.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Doctor Slop, having fallen off his horse, is greeted by Obadiah. Etching after L. Sterne.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • A procession of blind and physically disabled people; allegory about sticks: how children are afraid of the rod but disadvantaged adults come to rely on it. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563?.
  • The parable of the blind leading the blind: two blind men walk into a stream. Engraving after H. Bosch.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, with a pipe in one hand and a stick in the other, being rolled out of a sheet [hammock?] by a sailor. Wood engraving by J. Jackson.
  • The parable of the blind leading the blind: six blind men walk in a line, the leader trips over, the second stumbles over him, the rest are set to follow. Process print after by P. Bruegel the elder, 1568.
  • A windy day at Margate: a man accidentally bumping into another man, and knocking out his last tooth. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1810.
  • Fools carved on the finial of the staff of the Compagnie Mère-Folle (Mère-Folie) at Dijon, 1482. Line engraving by or after B. Picart.
  • Benin (Dahomey): men holding staffs made of human skulls with plumes of horsehair. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski (?), 19--.
  • Peter heals the lame man outside the temple. Mezzotint by P. van Somer after K. Dujardin.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, leaning back against a wooden fence, a gnarled stick in his hands. Lithograph.
  • A well dressed physician walking through a village in Corsica. Coloured aquatint after J. Daubigny.
  • Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac, complaining of his ailments to his nurse. Pen and ink drawing by L. Frölich, 1859.