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  • A man dressed in rags with a wooden leg-stump begging with his outstretched left hand while holding a stick with his right hand. Coloured etching.
  • A bearded lame man walking with the aid of two crutches begging for alms with his hat. Engraving with etching.
  • Philippe Sergent, suffering from ankylosis of the left leg, walking to the tomb of François de Paris, with crutches and aided by his wife. Engraving, 173-.
  • 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.
  • The "Ministry of all the Talents", personified by Charles James Fox, promising to convey John Bull towards the promised land, but really to hell. Coloured etching by James Gillray, 1806.
  • A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A winged couple holding a crutch, accompanied by a cat and snake. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A man in ragged clothing with a wooden leg and a stick is holding out his hand for alms. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • A group of merry, dancing former invalids discarding their medicines in favour of alcohol as a cure. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1827, after T. Lane.
  • A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
  • West Indian sugar-growers making gin for the British market at the expense of Scottish grain farmers. Aquatint by Samuel de Wilde, 1808.
  • Christ healing the lame at the pool of Bethesda. Etching after J. Restout.
  • A beggar dressed in ragged clothes walks on crutches begging for scraps. Coloured lithograph by E. Hull, 1825.
  • Crowds gather as Christ heals sick people. Lithograph after Benjamin West.
  • Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, Florence, Italy: the hospital and piazza. Coloured line engraving by N. Parr, 17--, after G. Zocchi.
  • A winged couple holding a crutch, accompanied by a cat and snake. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Two disabled veteran sailors, employed by an admiral as messengers, delivering a letter to the servant at the front door of a town-house. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1790.
  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland: the old assembly room. Wood engraving by Butterworth and Heath.
  • A group of invalided soldiers at the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. Wood engraving, c. 1855.
  • People with impaired arms and legs. Process prints.
  • A beggar wearing a placard around his neck checks the contents of his collecting tin while a beggar with two amputated feet moves past with the aid of two crutches and stumps. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Serbo-Bulgarian War: a café scene in Nisch where soldiers and the wounded are at leisure. Wood engraving.
  • A woman breast feeding her child in front of the fire, other members of the family gather around. Etching by I.J. de Claussin, 1807, after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • Four invalided soldiers from the hospital barracks at Brompton, London. Wood engraving.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • An old man sitting cross-legged on the ground next to his crutches. Etching by C. Jacque.
  • A surgeon on the battlefield. Process print after C. Maurer, 1594.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers arriving at Pretoria train station after Modder Spuit. Watercolour sketch, 1900.
  • A chariot bearing Aesculapius rides above suffering humanity: representing pathology. Etching by J. Chapman, 1823, after A.D. Macquin.
  • A man in ragged clothing with a wooden leg and a stick is holding out his hand for alms. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.