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  • A group portrait of black and white people of mixed races with a disabled man in a wheelchair at the centre; representing an advertisement for the AIDS Life Line in South Africa. Lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • An adjustable sofa for use by invalids, patented by Samuel James. Engraving with etching, 1800/1820?.
  • A chair designed for use by the deaf, incorporating a hearing device. Engraving with etching, 1770/1830?.
  • Royal patent adjustable invalid chair, shown in horizontal and upright positions. Coloured etching, 1810.
  • An invalid being drawn through a garden in an early wheelchair, called the 'voiture de malade'. Lithograph, 1830/1860?.
  • An invalid strapped into a special chair, next to him is a table full of medicine bottles. Coloured lithograph.
  • Merlin's mechanical chair for the elderly or infirm: the design incorporates hand-cranks, wheels, gears and an adjustable back and footrest. Coloured etching with aquatint, 1811.
  • A friar giving food to lame people and to a mother and her two children. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • A mechanism to enable an armless person to write with a pen by operating a treadle with the foot. Engraving by G. Gladwin after R. Cocking, ca. 1820.
  • The New-York State Asylum for Idiots, Syracuse. Wood engraving.