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  • A painter born without arms who paints with his feet. Watercolour.
  • Six scenes narrating the fate of a cork leg, the invention of a Dutch artist. Etching by Joe Lisle.
  • Sarah Biffin, a limbless painter. Engraving by R.W. Sievier, 1821, after Sarah Biffin.
  • Sarah Biffin, a limbless artist. Lithograph by H. Grévedon after S. Biffin.
  • Sarah Biffin, a limbless artist. Lithograph by R. T. Stothard after S. Biffin.
  • "The lion is coming": crowds at a fair panicking at the rumour that a lion has escaped; representing panic among crowds. Lithograph after K.R. Reinhardt, ca. 1860.
  • Louis Joseph César Ducornet, an artist born without arms. Lithograph by H. Robillard.
  • Louis-César-Joseph Ducornet, an artist born without arms. Lithograph by H. Robillard.
  • Mark Smith with historical and contemporary hearing aids
  • Mark Smith with historical and contemporary hearing aids