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  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • An old man in ragged clothes resting on a stone. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • The monastery and hospice, Montserrat, Spain: lame and hungry pilgrims queuing for food. Line engraving by F.B. Lorieux, 1806, after Legier (or Ligier).
  • Two angry medical practitioners arguing about opposing methods in front of a gouty (?) patient. Coloured engraving, 1787.
  • Doctor Bossy, a medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Pencil drawing after A. van Assen.
  • Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: pilgrims praying in front of the grotto and portrait of Bernadette Soubirous. Wood engraving.
  • A boy walking with crutches, held in the palm of a hand, representing the responsibility of the motorist to avoid hitting pedestrians. Gouache painting by John Bonella Third, 1949.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard with prominent fountain and foliage. Etching by T. Godart, 1870.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • A lame man sitting on the ground with his injured leg in a sling begging for alms. Etching with woodcut and engraving by F.Bloemaert after A. Bloemaert.
  • A man with a stick selling song-sheets is accompanied by a woman moving with the aid of two crutches. Coloured etching by Lapbame, 1820.
  • A young woman is weeping as she is being offered in marriage by her mother to a old, lame man. Engraving by J. Goldar after J. Collet, 1767.
  • A one-legged man in rags moving with the aid of crutches is accompanied by a child with a bandaged arm. Gouache on vellum.
  • Franco-Prussian War: wounded French prisoners from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving, 1870.
  • First Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896: soldiers returing from Eritrea being taken into hospital in Naples. Process print by Meisenbach after J. Fortuné Nott after H. Lanos.
  • Hordes of infirm people with crutches and wheelchairs making their way down the hill to Bath from the Royal Crescent. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson.
  • Two old gouty men dancing with bandaged legs, an old nurse is holding their crutches, behind her is a gleeful doctor. Coloured aquatint, 1801.
  • Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: pilgrims seeking cures from the holy water. Wood engraving.
  • Boer War: a group of wounded war veterans at the docks in England. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph.
  • Christmas benefit at University College Hospital, London. Wood engraving after G. Durand, 1874.
  • Queen Victoria with her entourage visiting invalided soldiers at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • The sick come to Christ on his travels. Lithograph by M. Fanoli, 1849, after J.F. Overbeck.
  • Votive picture: a woman kneeling with crutches, praying to the Virgin and Child. Oil painting.
  • A woman doctor bandaging a young woman's hand. Mezzotint, 1787.
  • An old gentleman visitor offering snuff to an old woman at her fireside. Coloured lithograph by J. J. Chalon, c. 1821, after himself.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard with three figures, one on crutches. Engraving by J. Hulett.
  • A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.
  • Enoch and his family praying before taking a frugal meal outside a farm building while a woman gives alms to poor and lame people who approach the farm. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.