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  • The blue badge of courage: a soldier wounded in World War I holding crutches with a bandage over his head is feeding sea-gulls by a lake. Colour process print after E. Canziani, ca. 1917.
  • A beggar wearing a placard around his neck checks the contents of his collecting tin while a beggar with two amputated feet moves past with the aid of two crutches and stumps. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • The Church of St. Bartholomew the Great and surrounding area; a view of Duke Street in West Smithfield, where a woman walks using crutches, a man on a ladder alters a street lamp and two dogs fight. Etching by J.T. Smith, July 1806.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • Crutch-like wooden flaking-tools used by American Indians
  • Above left, a tiger (?) restrained with a collar and a cloth over its head; left, a man on crutches steps over a sleeping man; centre, a man fans a stove on which a kettle is placed, watched by a man (right) kneeling by a cabinet (?); above right, an old woman sharpens (?) a knife. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.
  • A naked man with hemiplegia, walking with a crutch. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Beggar with one crutch, seen from behind. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot, ca. 1622.
  • India: a man with a crutch carrying tubes decorated with bells and peacock feathers. Watercolour, 18--.
  • A winged couple holding a crutch, accompanied by a cat and snake. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A winged couple holding a crutch, accompanied by a cat and snake. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A hunch-backed old man supported by a crutch with a whinnying horse behind. Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, 1580.
  • Li T'ieh Kuai walking with the aid of a crutch. Collage of padded silk fabrics with watercolour on paper, 18--?.
  • A blind man is begging with a hat in his hand and another is one-legged supported by a crutch. Watercolour.
  • A goose lets blood from a seated gentleman holding a crutch, while geese representing Portsmouth aldermen sit in council. Etching, 1761.
  • A seated man in a double-breasted coat smoking a pipe while he rests on a crutch under his left arm. Line engraving with etching.
  • A boy with a wounded thigh seated on a bed; a crutch to his right. Coloured stipple etching by J. Grant after J. Bell, ca. 1815.
  • A boy with a wounded thigh seated on a bed; a crutch to his right. Coloured stipple etching by J. Stewart after J. Bell, c. 1826.
  • A woman with a crutch, a man in chains and a man falling on a sword; allegory of suffering and the different forms of death. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563?.
  • Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.
  • The Earl of Bute as a Colossus wearing a tartan scarf about his shoulders stands on two stone pedestals before the tower to St James's Palace as William Pitt the Elder, leaning on a crutch, pleads with him from below. Engraving, 1767.