49 results filtered with: Artificial legs
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A man begging for alms at the side of a road is holding out his cap to a traveller on horseback. Engraving by James Peake, 1777, after J. Courtois, il Borgognone.
Courtois, Jacques.Date: May 1st 1777Reference: 32228i
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J. Luce de Lancival, a professor and poet, with an artificial leg walking with a group of men. Etching.
Reference: 23103i
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Four Georgian gentlemen at their club seriously engaged in smoking. Stipple print by H. Bunbury, c. 1794.
Date: 1794Reference: 24851i
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A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 44066i
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Three men help a sailor of their acquaintance who has slipped and broken his wooden leg by calling on a passing carpenter for help. Coloured engraving with etching.
Date: 24 February 1800Reference: 44090i
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Prostheses: two men with artificial limbs demonstrating their comparative agility by climbing gymnasium bars at St. Thomas' Hospital, London: the man on the left wears a new type of prosthesis. Photograph, ca. 1920.
Date: 1920Reference: 578100i
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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.
Date: 1806Reference: 26286i- Pictures
An old sailor with wooden leg relates his adventures to a family as both men smoke and drink. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after J. Sheringham.
Sheringham, John, Lieutenant.Date: 1818Reference: 24862i- Pictures
A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.
Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786.Date: May 1773Reference: 43852i
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A man in ragged clothing with a wooden leg and a stick is holding out his hand for alms. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818.Date: 1798-1813Reference: 38064i
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Three musicians, one in drag, in masks for an "Olympia" masked ball.
Brincker (Photographer at Zutphen)Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2044501iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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A disabled soldier has his wooden legs stolen by four Irishmen in a bar. Colour lithograph by H.G. Banks, ca. 1899.
Banks, H. G.Date: [1899], ©1899Reference: 556713i
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A pregnant woman leading a donkey on which a discharged veteran, who has lost both his legs, is sitting carrying one of their children in a bucket. Etching with engraving by J. Caldwell after J. Collet, 1775.
Collet, John, 1725?-1780.Date: 30 May 1775Reference: 43853i- Pictures
A variety of beggars, members of the organization of the "Argot". Wood engraving by A. Rivaud after a tapestry in Reims.
Rivaud, A., active 1850?Date: [approximately 1850]Reference: 43766i
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"No secret remedy": natural solutions to baldness and corns. Lithograph after J. Bahr, 1909.
Bahr, Johann, 1859-Date: 1909Reference: 577262iPart of: Unsere Ärzte: various medical caricatures.
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An archer whose left leg is hooked into a wooden stump is pursued by a horse. Watercolour by Terzi after a watercolour after a mosaic.
Reference: 43762i
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Six scenes narrating the fate of a cork leg, the invention of a Dutch artist. Etching by Joe Lisle.
Lisle, Joe.Reference: 44051i
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Boys at a woodwork class with their teachers, in London. Photograph by Walter C. Tyler, ca. 1895.
Tyler, Walter C.Reference: 529359i
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A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: Feb. 11 1784Reference: 33167i
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A queen or empress administering a healing balm to a person with leprosy (?). Photograph of a wallpainting in the chapel in Eton College.
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Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.
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A cat with a wooden front leg. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?).
Date: 1920Reference: 578146i
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An old soldier with a wooden leg telling a family about his experiences. Etching by W. Matthews after S. Jennen.
Jennen, S.Reference: 23091i
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A black banjo player with a wooden leg. Photograph, ca. 1865 (?).
Date: 1860-1869Reference: 527805i
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Four Georgian gentlemen sit in their club seriously engaged in smoking. Engraving with stipple by H. Bunbury, 1794.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 15 March 1794Reference: 25446i