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A Greenwich Pensioner, with a wooden leg, hitting a peddlar with his walking stick. Wood engraving.
Reference: 32767i- Pictures
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A blind beggar hunched over his walking stick, holding out his hat for money. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 30 April 1816Reference: 16449i- Pictures
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A sick man in bed, attended by a physician, and surrounded by members of his family weeping and praying. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid after J.P. Haid, 17--.
Haid, Johann Philipp, 1730-approximately 1806.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 5116i- Pictures
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Two angels visit Lot with the intention of destroying Sodom: he offers them hospitality. Line engraving by P. Galle after A. Blocklandt.
Blocklandt, Anthonie van Montfoort, 1532-1583.Reference: 15816i- Pictures
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A physician talking to a patient who is in bed. Etching by D. Berger, 1775, after D. Chodowiecki.
Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801.Date: 1775Reference: 22119i- Pictures
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Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland. Wood engraving by Butterworth and Heath.
Reference: 18364i- Pictures
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A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.
Geikie, Walter, 1795-1837.Reference: 16516i- Pictures
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A well dressed physician walking through a village in Corsica. Coloured aquatint after J. Daubigny.
Daubigny, J., active approximately 1794-1798.Reference: 21610i- Pictures
A disgruntled aged physician taking the pulse of an aged patient. Etching.
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The parable of the blind leading the blind: six blind men walk in a line, the leader trips over, the second stumbles over him, the rest are set to follow. Process print after by P. Bruegel the elder, 1568.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.Reference: 16499i- Pictures
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Doctor Diafoirus, a physician from Molière's play Le malade imaginaire. Coloured etching.
Reference: 21966i- Pictures
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An old man dozing in a chair; representing the eightieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.
Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26389i- Pictures
A Greenwich Pensioner, dressed as a retired Commodore. Mixed-method print by F. C. Lewis, 1826, after D. Wilkie, 1823.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: January 1826Reference: 31466i- Pictures
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An old pedlar shows his wares to a crowd of people among which an old lady wearing spectacles takes a keen interest. Etching by J.D. Both after A.D. Both.
Both, Andries Dirksz, approximately 1608-1641?Reference: 16242i- Pictures
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Moses, with his rod and the table of the ten commandments; with scenes from the Passion and the Last Judgement to come. Mezzotint after S.W. Reynolds.
Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773-1835.Reference: 18273i- Pictures
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Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland: the gentleman's verandah. Wood engraving by C. Butterworth.
Butterworth, Charles, active 1887-1896.Reference: 18367i- Pictures
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A Moorish man with wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 32684i- Pictures
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A woman teaching an infant to read; representing grammar. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 25911i- Pictures
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Three men in a wood, a scene from Molière's play Le médecin malgré luy. Engraving after J.B. Molière.
Molière, 1622-1673.Reference: 21962i- Pictures
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A blind man on his knees begging, a woman and dog behind him. Coloured stipple engraving.
Reference: 16525i- Pictures
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The parable of the blind leading the blind: two blind men walk into a stream. Engraving after H. Bosch.
Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 2027432i- Pictures
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A 'kuttar' or line of blind beggars in a row, two other men in discussion, Kabul, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph after L.W. Hart, 1843.
Hart, Lockyer Willis, active 1843.Date: 2 April 1843Reference: 16490i- Pictures
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Cape Coast Castle, Ghana: a blind man is led through the street by a boy. Wood engraving by J.J.
Reference: 16487i- Pictures
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A French politician as a quack doctor wearing a feathered head-dress, holding a tooth and staff in the air and exclaiming to an audience that it is better to extract than to cure. Colour wood engraving (?) by Lefman after A. Gill, 1873.
Gill, André, 1840-1885.Date: Dimanche 14 Decembre 1873Reference: 16753i- Ephemera
Whalebone walking-stick with skull pommel in ivory with green glass eyes, once owned by Charles Darwin / Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection.
Date: 2009