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  • Eating through the years : healthy eating in retirement / Heinz.
  • Winter: an old man warming his hands before a brazier. Wax sculpture.
  • Eating through the years : healthy eating in retirement / Heinz.
  • A hawker with a hawker's tray full of rodents. Etching by Jan van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • Eating through the years : healthy eating in retirement / Heinz.
  • Eating through the years : healthy eating in retirement / Heinz.
  • An old woman in ragged clothes carrying a huge load on her back. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • A prostitute leading an old man into the bedroom and taking money from him; implying that her services will act like a tonic and preserve his state of health. Coloured etching, 18--, after T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An old woman wearing spectacles; representing the sense of sight. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • A man with one foot moves with crutches accompanied by a little girl wearing a hat and her arm in a sling. Engraving with etching by P. Quast.
  • An old woman with a plate of vegetables; representing the sense of taste. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • Vaccination against smallpox: a young Turkmen being vaccinated, contrasted with an elderly Turkmen who is blinded and disfigured by smallpox. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • A man in Mexico is carrying a blind old man in a chair on his back in order to attract alms. Coloured lithograph by C. Linati, 1828.
  • A woman playing the barrel-organ; representing the sense of hearing. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • A beggar woman with a gourd. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1629.
  • A young woman encourages the attentions of an old man while offering her hand behind his back to a younger one. Mezzotint by Wilson after C. Troost.
  • John Howard visiting a prison: a group of inmates sitting or lying on the floor. Etching by J. Hogg after F. Wheatley, 1787.
  • An old man with two crutches is sitting on the steps of a church begging for alms from two women entering the church. Etching by A. Legros.
  • Two elderly women, one wearing glasses, with their heads together with the question: 'Me, AIDS?' in German and that 'AIDS affects us all' bottom; with a message below in French about their fears for their children and grand-children and the need to shelter them from AIDS; an advertisement for safe sex by the Ministère de la Santé. Colour lithograph.
  • A gentleman giving alms to two lame beggars by leaning over an inscribed banner. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, 1632.
  • An aged rustic telling a clergyman that he is calling the physician to attend his wife only on the fortieth anniversary of her previous use of a physician. Drawing by B. Thomas, 1921.
  • An elderly man with a skull and an hourglass, representing the misery of old age. Engraving by C.G. Schultze, 1770, after C.-F. Hutin.
  • A woman carrying a basket of eggs looks at a poor old man who is working as a chiffonnier and picking up rubbish with a stick: she exclaims that they were once lovers. Lithograph by H. Bellangé, 1826.
  • A beggar woman with a gourd. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1629.
  • Some elderly patients wistfully reminisce about their younger days. Coloured lithograph by A. de Valmont.
  • An old man in night-clothes holding up a box of "Uricure" pills as an advertisement for their efficacy against rheumatic diseases. Coloured lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1910.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: two Buddhist priests. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • A man with a stick selling song-sheets is accompanied by a woman moving with the aid of two crutches. Coloured etching by Lapbame, 1820.
  • An old man in night-clothes holding up a box of "Uricure" pills as an advertisement for their efficacy against rheumatic diseases. Coloured lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1910.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: two Buddhist priests. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.