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1 print : lithograph, printed in blue, red and white ; sheet 61.9 x 43 cm

Four deaf men signing the message 'Stop AIDS. Use Condoms. Don't share needles'; a safe sex advertisement for the deaf by the Moomba Deaf Association and Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.Colour lithograph by Paul Drakeford.

Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history / Jan Branson and Don Miller.

"1760" refers to the time of the ancien régime and contrasts the picture with another of Boilly's 'Grimaces' series bearing the same title, but a different date, 1823. It shows a group of fashionable young doctors and can be seen in Wellcome Library no. 16325i

Grimaces

Five decrepit doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

1 drawing : pen and ink ; image 19.6 x 25.5 cm

Deaf and dumb people communicating through sign language. Pen and ink after S. della Gatta, 1828.

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; image 10.4 x 17.6 cm

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.

The Institut National des Sourds-Muets was founded by Abbé de l'Épée, c. 1760

The Institut National des Sourds-Muets, Paris: interior showing voters for the National Assembly. Wood engraving, 1871.

William Huntington was a preacher and religious entrepreneur at his Providence Chapel, Titchfield Street, off Great Portland Street, London, and subsequently at Grays Inn Road, near Calthorpe Street
Figures on the left include deaf people (with ear-trumpet) and syphilitic people (no nose). On the right and in the background, small grinning devils fill coalsacks with gold, alluding to Huntington's previous employment as a coal-heaver and his enrichment from religion which he described as the "Bank of faith". The gift of breeches refers to his receipt of some breeches after having prayed for some

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 17.3 x 34.1 cm

Drunken and diseased people attending the wedding of William Huntington and the rich widow Sanderson; behind Huntington is a devil handing breeches to a hack journalist. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.

1 print : lithograph, printed in black, white and burgundy ; sheet 59.3 x 84 cm

Two men engaged in anal sex, kissing and oral sex with the message 'Safer sex' shown in sign language above; an advertisement for deaf people in Berlin by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by M. Taubenheim and W. Mudra, 199-.

1 print : stipple engraving with line engraving ; platemark 18.6 x 11.5 cm

Jean Massieu, a deaf mute man. Engraving by L.A. Bouteloup.

xx, 48 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations (engraving) ; 19 cm (12mo)

A treatise on the education of the deaf and dumb : To which is added an essay on deafness, also, an appendix, relating to the education and comfort of the blind / by John England.

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Four deaf men signing the message 'Stop AIDS. Use Condoms. Don't share needles'; a safe sex advertisement for the deaf by the Moomba Deaf Association and Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.Colour lithograph by Paul Drakeford.

Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history / Jan Branson and Don Miller.

Five decrepit doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

Deaf and dumb people communicating through sign language. Pen and ink after S. della Gatta, 1828.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.

The Institut National des Sourds-Muets, Paris: interior showing voters for the National Assembly. Wood engraving, 1871.

Drunken and diseased people attending the wedding of William Huntington and the rich widow Sanderson; behind Huntington is a devil handing breeches to a hack journalist. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.

Two men engaged in anal sex, kissing and oral sex with the message 'Safer sex' shown in sign language above; an advertisement for deaf people in Berlin by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by M. Taubenheim and W. Mudra, 199-.

Jean Massieu, a deaf mute man. Engraving by L.A. Bouteloup.

A treatise on the education of the deaf and dumb : To which is added an essay on deafness, also, an appendix, relating to the education and comfort of the blind / by John England.

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Four deaf men signing the message 'Stop AIDS. Use Condoms. Don't share needles'; a safe sex advertisement for the deaf by the Moomba Deaf Association and Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.Colour lithograph by Paul Drakeford.

Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history / Jan Branson and Don Miller.

Five decrepit doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

Deaf and dumb people communicating through sign language. Pen and ink after S. della Gatta, 1828.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.

The Institut National des Sourds-Muets, Paris: interior showing voters for the National Assembly. Wood engraving, 1871.

Drunken and diseased people attending the wedding of William Huntington and the rich widow Sanderson; behind Huntington is a devil handing breeches to a hack journalist. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.

Two men engaged in anal sex, kissing and oral sex with the message 'Safer sex' shown in sign language above; an advertisement for deaf people in Berlin by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by M. Taubenheim and W. Mudra, 199-.

Jean Massieu, a deaf mute man. Engraving by L.A. Bouteloup.

A treatise on the education of the deaf and dumb : To which is added an essay on deafness, also, an appendix, relating to the education and comfort of the blind / by John England.

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