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  • An itinerant salesman with artificial arms selling the bootlaces that hang from the hooks of his hands. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A sixteenth-century iron arm: two figures, including a cross-section. Line engraving by J. Skelton after S.R. Meyrick.
  • Sir Harry Lauder, the Scottish entertainer, at a prosthesis stand at a Daily Mail exhibition, Olympia, 1921: one man with an arm prosthesis lights his pipe, a second demonstrates the equipment. Photograph, 1921.
  • A man with an artificial arm selling live haddock from a basket he suspends from the hook on his left shoulder. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • 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.