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  • A ragged beggar carrying a banner reading "Capitano de baroni" leads a procession of lame people and beggars out of a village. Etching after J. Callot.
  • Emploi des travailleurs handicapés : une obligation, une diversité, des défis partagés / ARCAT.
  • An itinerant salesman with artificial arms selling the bootlaces that hang from the hooks of his hands. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Blessings given at the High Church of Our Beloved Lady involving the expulsion of devils and curing of blind and lame people. Etching.
  • A mechanism to enable an armless person to write with a pen by operating a treadle with the foot. Engraving by G. Gladwin after R. Cocking, ca. 1820.
  • Five profiles exhibited for their noses. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • A man is shown from behind reading a sandwich board attached to the back of the man in front of him, advertising a lottery. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • 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.
  • Merlin's mechanical chair for the elderly or infirm: the design incorporates hand-cranks, wheels, gears and an adjustable back and footrest. Coloured etching with aquatint, 1811.
  • The New-York State Asylum for Idiots, Syracuse. Wood engraving.
  • Head of a boy in profile, used to illustrate phrenological classifications of mental pathology.
  • A man with a wooden leg sings while he is accompanied by a blind man playing the flute and a dog performing on its hind legs. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Saint Gregory of Utrecht wearing episcopal dress is giving money to a lame man. Engraving by F. Bloemaert after A. Bloemaert, 16--.
  • The New-York State Asylum for Idiots, Syracuse. Wood engraving by W.(?) Sebald.
  • A profile of an old mentally disabled man, skulls of various races, skulls of a monkey and an orangutan, and a perfect, diagrammed human face; demonstrating the methods of physiognomy. Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
  • Outlines of twelve faces in profile. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A mechanism to enable invalids to lift themselves up into the sitting position in bed. Engraving by A.W. Warren, ca. 1820, after H.W. Reveley.
  • A group of gay men including a transvestite, a black man and a man in a wheelchair sit having a picnic on a check blanket in a field with the message: "Familien-Bande"; an advertisement for the support services for all those affected by AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A group of gay men including a transvestite, a black man and a man in a wheelchair sit having a picnic on a check blanket in a field with the message: "A family takes care"; an advertisement for the support services for gay men affected by AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • An old beggar with a wooden leg moves with the aid of two crutches and holds his hat in his left hand. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 8, Benefits / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 8, Benefits / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 8, Benefits / Immunity.
  • François Oudot, Viscount of Auxonne, healing and exorcising people in a village square. Etching, 1760, after F. Devosge.
  • A horse-drawn carriage has arrived at a church in a poor part of a town: a newly wed couple walk down the steps towards it as the coachman holds the door open and spectators stand by. Lithograph by C. Motte after V. Adam.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 8, Benefits / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 8, Benefits / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 8, Benefits / Immunity.
  • The monastery and hospice, Montserrat, Spain: lame and hungry pilgrims queuing for food. Line engraving by F.B. Lorieux, 1806, after Legier (or Ligier).
  • 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?.