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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.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 30 April 1816Reference: 44024i
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A girl walking with crutches and leg-braces in shadow, referring to the effects of poliomyelitis. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.
Mount, Reginald.Reference: 22659i
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Freetown, Sierra Leone: local people, including an amputee on crutches, are shown walking along one of the principal streets. Photograph, 1910/1920.
Date: 1910-1920Reference: 581858i
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A poor mother and four children leave a temple in an ancient city; a cloaked man with a stick walks behind them; a boy follows using an artificial leg and crutches. Etching by Michel Corneille, ca. 1666, after Annibale or Lodovico Carracci.
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.Date: [1754]Reference: 589687i
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St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: a child using crutches, whose left leg is in plaster. Photograph, c. 1935.
Date: [1935-1937]Reference: 29324i
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St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: a boy using crutches, half of his right leg is missing. Photograph, c. 1935.
Date: [1935-1937]Reference: 29241i
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A Red Crescent nurse is sitting on a chair, holding the crutches of a patient who is saluting her. Colour process print, 19--.
Date: 1930Reference: 569383i
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A man with crutches sits in despair in front of a blueprint for a penny-farthing wheelchair. Colour lithograph after O. Kacher, 19--.
Kacher, O.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 997233i
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A man with crutches is going down the steps of a swimming pool; men wearing top hats in the background. Etching, ca. 1870.
Date: [1870?]Reference: 572663i
Part of: The water cure illustrated.
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Left, Christ carrying the Cross, standing on a pile of crosses; right, people with crutches seek his help, within a setting of colonnades. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1568.
Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1525-1601.Date: 1568Reference: 569749i
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An unkempt ape on crutches tells his mates that he has returned from being an experimental animal at a congress of gastroenterologists. Colour lithograph after G. De Finetti, ca. 1904.
De Finetti, Gino, 1877-1955.Date: 1904Reference: 577265i
Part of: Unsere Ärzte: various medical caricatures.
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A veteran soldier with a pair of crutches is sitting on a bench talking to a young woman who has brought him some refreshment. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1825.
Bellangé, H. (Hippolyte), 1800-1866.Date: [1825]Reference: 32055i
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A seated man in a double-breasted coat smoking a pipe while he rests on a crutch under his left arm. Line engraving with etching.
Reference: 44049i
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A blind man in 1870 is begging with a hat in his hand, while another is one-legged and supported by a crutch. Watercolour, 1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 35069i
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The gates of Greenwich Hospital, flanked by a sailor holding a Union Flag, and a Pensioner on crutches: naval paraphernalia at the base of the print. Wood engraving by [W.H.P.].
Reference: 33298i
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A black man in ragged clothes moving with the aid of crutches holds out his hat to beg for alms while wearing a miniature ship on his head. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 31 December 1815Reference: 44009i
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The blue badge of courage: a soldier wounded in World War I holding crutches with a bandage over his head is feeding sea-gulls by a lake. Colour process print after E. Canziani, ca. 1917.
Canziani, Estella, 1887-1964.Date: [1917]Reference: 572699i
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A winged couple holding a crutch, accompanied by a cat and snake. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828.Date: [1796/1798]Reference: 37168i
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The Church of St. Bartholomew the Great and surrounding area; a view of Duke Street in West Smithfield, where a woman walks using crutches, a man on a ladder alters a street lamp and two dogs fight. Etching by J.T. Smith, July 1806.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 10th November 1813Reference: 38198i
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Crutch-like wooden flaking-tools used by American Indians
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A woman with a crutch, a man in chains and a man falling on a sword; allegory of suffering and the different forms of death. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563?.
Date: [1563]Reference: 26273i
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A man leaning on a crutch points to two pineapples and three bottles on a table beside him, a portrait of the Earl of Bute on the wall beyond. Engraving by J. Collett, 1769, after his design.
Collet, John, 1725?-1780.Date: Nov 9th 1769 ;Reference: 583485i
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A gallows, a weathervane, a beacon, a large eye, and other objects; below, black hillocks with vegetation. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 20th Jan. 55 [20 January 1955]Reference: 2958271i
Part of: Adamson Collection
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Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.
Reference: 20770i
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A naked man with hemiplegia, walking with a crutch. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 2010598i
Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements

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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.

A girl walking with crutches and leg-braces in shadow, referring to the effects of poliomyelitis. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.

Freetown, Sierra Leone: local people, including an amputee on crutches, are shown walking along one of the principal streets. Photograph, 1910/1920.

A poor mother and four children leave a temple in an ancient city; a cloaked man with a stick walks behind them; a boy follows using an artificial leg and crutches. Etching by Michel Corneille, ca. 1666, after Annibale or Lodovico Carracci.

St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: a child using crutches, whose left leg is in plaster. Photograph, c. 1935.

St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: a boy using crutches, half of his right leg is missing. Photograph, c. 1935.

A Red Crescent nurse is sitting on a chair, holding the crutches of a patient who is saluting her. Colour process print, 19--.

A man with crutches sits in despair in front of a blueprint for a penny-farthing wheelchair. Colour lithograph after O. Kacher, 19--.

A man with crutches is going down the steps of a swimming pool; men wearing top hats in the background. Etching, ca. 1870.

Left, Christ carrying the Cross, standing on a pile of crosses; right, people with crutches seek his help, within a setting of colonnades. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1568.

An unkempt ape on crutches tells his mates that he has returned from being an experimental animal at a congress of gastroenterologists. Colour lithograph after G. De Finetti, ca. 1904.

A veteran soldier with a pair of crutches is sitting on a bench talking to a young woman who has brought him some refreshment. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1825.

A seated man in a double-breasted coat smoking a pipe while he rests on a crutch under his left arm. Line engraving with etching.

A blind man in 1870 is begging with a hat in his hand, while another is one-legged and supported by a crutch. Watercolour, 1870.

The gates of Greenwich Hospital, flanked by a sailor holding a Union Flag, and a Pensioner on crutches: naval paraphernalia at the base of the print. Wood engraving by [W.H.P.].

A black man in ragged clothes moving with the aid of crutches holds out his hat to beg for alms while wearing a miniature ship on his head. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.

The blue badge of courage: a soldier wounded in World War I holding crutches with a bandage over his head is feeding sea-gulls by a lake. Colour process print after E. Canziani, ca. 1917.

A winged couple holding a crutch, accompanied by a cat and snake. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.

The Church of St. Bartholomew the Great and surrounding area; a view of Duke Street in West Smithfield, where a woman walks using crutches, a man on a ladder alters a street lamp and two dogs fight. Etching by J.T. Smith, July 1806.

Crutch-like wooden flaking-tools used by American Indians

A woman with a crutch, a man in chains and a man falling on a sword; allegory of suffering and the different forms of death. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563?.

A man leaning on a crutch points to two pineapples and three bottles on a table beside him, a portrait of the Earl of Bute on the wall beyond. Engraving by J. Collett, 1769, after his design.

A gallows, a weathervane, a beacon, a large eye, and other objects; below, black hillocks with vegetation. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.

Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.

A naked man with hemiplegia, walking with a crutch. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.