A paralyzed woman being transported along the street in a wheelchair. Lithograph by Théodore Gericault, 1821.

The wheelchair is an improvisation produced by adding leather or fabric side-walls and crude wooden wheels to an ordinary chair. The man who pulls it along the street stops for a rest. On the left, a young woman looks at the chair with a fearful expression. The child who accompanies her pays no attention, but holds a toy horse. In the right background a real horse is driven through the fog by a coachman. On the wall at back, a fragment of a poster advertising a remedy