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  • First book.
  • First book.
  • Brain of a "European male idiot" aged 12 years: four figures. Lithograph by E.M. Williams after H. Watkins, 1864.
  • First book.
  • First book.
  • First book.
  • John, in English, in type for the blind. Part 2.
  • John, in English, in type for the blind. Part 2.
  • Brain of a "European female idiot" aged 42 years: four figures. Lithograph by E.M. Williams after H. Watkins, 1864.
  • A beggar, probably with two amputated legs, leans on two wooden crutches. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • John, in English, in type for the blind. Part 2.
  • Six scenes narrating the fate of a cork leg, the invention of a Dutch artist. Etching by Joe Lisle.
  • A blind man carrying a paralyzed man. Photographic postcard by ND after Jean Turcan, 192-.
  • An invalid strapped into a special chair, next to him is a table full of medicine bottles. Coloured lithograph.
  • John, in English, in type for the blind. Part 2.
  • First book.
  • John, in English, in type for the blind. Part 2.
  • A man with a wooden leg collecting brushwood in a wicker basket slung over his shoulder. Pen and wash drawing.
  • Foolish Sam, a mentally defective man in London. Etching by B. Nebot, ca. 1773.
  • A gay man helping his partner who is disabled and has AIDS; an advertisement for caring for disabled partners with AIDS. Colour lithograph by M. Taubenheim and W. Mudra for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • Two sailors with amputated legs, an eyepatch and an amputated arm moving with the aid of crutches. Etching by S.B., 1783.
  • A friar giving food to lame people and to a mother and her two children. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • A boy with crutches sitting on a bench in a bucolic environment looking pensively. Wood engraving.
  • A group of beggars, one playing the violin, the other walking with the aid of a stick holding out a hat to collect alms. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • Sarah Biffin, a limbless painter. Engraving by R.W. Sievier, 1821, after Sarah Biffin.
  • A miser and usurer holding a money-bag is accosted by a poor man on crutches. Woodcut by J. Amman, c. 1568.
  • A legless man sitting on a wooden cart, presumably begging for alms, is surrounded by two dogs. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An old woman dying with her hand held by her daughter; two men, with impaired limbs, pay their last respects. Colour stipple print by E. & M.A. Scott after T. Stothard.
  • The halt and the blind being invited to the great supper. Mezzotint by J.E. Haid after J.M. Denzel.
  • A one-legged man is knocked down by a horse-drawn cart that crushes his wooden leg under its wheels. Coloured etching.