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1 print : stipple etching, with watercolour ; image 13.5 x 19.5 cm

A forearm with three open wounds. Coloured stipple etching after J. Bell, c. 1815 (?).

A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.

1 print : etching, en chine ; platemark 18.5 x 12.5 cm

A white trout turns into a woman in white when an uncouth soldier tries to eat it; she complains at the cut on her arm caused by his knife and fork. Etching by S. Lover, 1832.

1 drawing on pink paper : black indian ink

Achilles bandaging Patroclus's wounded arm. Ink drawing after an Attic cup by the potter Sosias, c. 500 B.C.

He has a bandaged foot and forehead and one arm in a sling

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 71.2 x 55.4 cm

A man who has lost use of his limbs by taking a risk. Colour lithograph by R..l (?), 1929.

Standing, outdoors, with right arm in sling, holding walking stick in left hand

1 photograph : photoprint ; photograph 7 x 5.8 cm

A man (George C. Lewis) with a wounded hand, holding his arm in a sling. Photograph, 1873.

"On 16 March 1912 the ship collided in the Strait of Dover with the Pisagua, a 2,850 GRT German-registered four-masted steel-hulled barque. As a result Oceana sank off Beachy Head on the East Sussex coast, with the loss of nine lives" (Wikipedia)

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 16.6 x 21.6 cm

A man (Mr Charlton) with his right arm in a sling, sitting on a bath chair, after rescue from a naval accident (collision of the Oceana). Photograph by Central News, ca. 1900.

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A forearm with three open wounds. Coloured stipple etching after J. Bell, c. 1815 (?).

A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.

A white trout turns into a woman in white when an uncouth soldier tries to eat it; she complains at the cut on her arm caused by his knife and fork. Etching by S. Lover, 1832.

Achilles bandaging Patroclus's wounded arm. Ink drawing after an Attic cup by the potter Sosias, c. 500 B.C.

A man who has lost use of his limbs by taking a risk. Colour lithograph by R..l (?), 1929.

A man (George C. Lewis) with a wounded hand, holding his arm in a sling. Photograph, 1873.

A man (Mr Charlton) with his right arm in a sling, sitting on a bath chair, after rescue from a naval accident (collision of the Oceana). Photograph by Central News, ca. 1900.

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A forearm with three open wounds. Coloured stipple etching after J. Bell, c. 1815 (?).

A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.

A white trout turns into a woman in white when an uncouth soldier tries to eat it; she complains at the cut on her arm caused by his knife and fork. Etching by S. Lover, 1832.

Achilles bandaging Patroclus's wounded arm. Ink drawing after an Attic cup by the potter Sosias, c. 500 B.C.

A man who has lost use of his limbs by taking a risk. Colour lithograph by R..l (?), 1929.

A man (George C. Lewis) with a wounded hand, holding his arm in a sling. Photograph, 1873.

A man (Mr Charlton) with his right arm in a sling, sitting on a bath chair, after rescue from a naval accident (collision of the Oceana). Photograph by Central News, ca. 1900.

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