Stories
- Book extract
Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
- Article
The current that kills
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.
Catalogue
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A one-legged bearded minstrel playing a fiddle. Wood engraving.
Reference: 43765i- Pictures
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Five legless men moving with the aid of crutches in a yard. Etching by F.D. Hillemacher after P. Bruegel, 1871.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.Date: 1871Reference: 43779i- Pictures
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A one-legged beggar with two crutches. Gouache possibly after J. Callot.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Reference: 43807i- Pictures
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A man dressed in rags with a wooden leg-stump begging with his outstretched left hand while holding a stick with his right hand. Coloured etching.
Reference: 43960i- Pictures
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Two old men in conversation: the man on the left holding a basket has a wooden leg, the other one leans with both hands on a stick. Watercolour by S.G. (?).
Reference: 43961i