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  • A troupe of blind musicians and their dogs confronting a rival street musician and his dog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1828.
  • John Stanley, a blind musician. Line engraving, 1784.
  • A blind musician holding a uilleann pipe or pastoral bagpipe. Etching attributed to G. Grattan.
  • A blind musician plays the koto to a gathering of women dressed in ornate kimonos. Coloured woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1849/1852.
  • A blind musician carrying a shamisen (?) and walking with the aid of a cane. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • A band of seven blinded soldiers playing the banjo. Photograph, ca. 1919.
  • Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: two seated musicians. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: two seated musicians. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Jack Keiling, known as Blind Jack, played the flageolet through his nose. Mezzotint.
  • John Keiling, known as Blind Jack, played the flageolet through his nose. Line engraving by R. Graves.
  • A blind singer wearing a long cloak is playing the guitar. Etching by Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla after Manuel de la Cruz.
  • A blind man plays the fiddle to a large family. Engraving by T. Nicholson after David Wilkie.
  • Four blind men and a boy playing musical instruments and singing. Etching by C. Du Bosc after A. Watteau.
  • A blind fiddler walks with his dog. Etching by or after Rembrandt, 1631.
  • A young woman guiding a blind bag-piper over a bridge in Scotland. Stipple engraving by S.W. Reynolds, 1848, after F. Tayler.
  • A blind man plays the fiddle to a family audience; a child to the right imitates the fiddler. Line engraving by T. Nicholson after D. Wilkie.
  • A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • A blind hurdy gurdy player and his son and two dancing dogs. Coloured lithograph by White after E.J. Pigal.
  • A blind man plays the fiddle to a family audience. Colour engraving by J. Burnet after D. Wilkie, 1806.
  • Top: Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation, one (left) kneeling to hit his head against a rock, and the other (right) with burning herbs on his head; below, a monk being whipped as a punishment for promiscuity. Engraving by C. Du Bosc after B. Picart after J. Nieuhof.
  • Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation}: (left to right) two men hitting their heads against each other; a man kneeling to hit his head against a rock; a man with burning herbs on his head; a standing man hitting his head with a rock. Engraving after J. Nieuhof.
  • Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation}: (left to right) two men hitting their heads against each other; a man kneeling to hit his head against a rock; a man with burning herbs on his head; a standing man hitting his head with a rock. Engraving after J. Nieuhof.
  • Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation: (left to right) a man hitting his head with a rock; a man with burning herbs on his head; a man with his head stuck in a block. Engraving after J. Nieuhof.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.