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Crimean War: wounded sailors convalescing at Haslar Hospital. Wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin after J. Mayall.
Mayall, J. E. (John Jabez Edwin), 1813-1901.Reference: 21355i
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Two sailors with amputated legs, an eyepatch and an amputated arm moving with the aid of crutches. Etching by S.B., 1783.
B. S.Date: 20 September 1783Reference: 43959i
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A man with a wooden leg sings while he is accompanied by a blind man playing the flute and a dog performing on its hind legs. Pen and ink drawing.
Reference: 44048i
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A one-legged beggar with two crutches. Gouache possibly after J. Callot.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Reference: 43807i
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Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.
Reference: 20136i
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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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World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.
Rawlings, Leo, -1990.Date: 1944Reference: 24141i
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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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A surgeon dressing the stump of a patient's recently amputated leg. Engraving, 1738.
Date: [1738]Reference: 22373i
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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
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A legless man sitting on a wooden cart, presumably begging for alms, is surrounded by two dogs. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 4 June 1816Reference: 44035i
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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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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.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 30 April 1816Reference: 44024i
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World War Two: two disabled men, one with a leg amputated and one with an artificial leg. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.
Rawlings, Leo, -1990.Date: 1944Reference: 24140i
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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.
Reference: 43764i
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A one-legged man in rags moving with the aid of crutches is accompanied by a child with a bandaged arm. Gouache on vellum.
Reference: 43781i
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A one-legged bearded minstrel playing a fiddle. Wood engraving.
Reference: 43765i
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A one-legged hurdy gurdy player dressed in rags with his companion, an old woman dressed in rags reading from a song sheet. Engraving with etching by J. Matham after Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne.
Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662.Reference: 43832i
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Indian Rebellion: wounded soldiers convalescing at Dagshai, India. Tinted lithograph by T. Picken, 1859, after G.F. Atkinson.
Atkinson, George Francklin.Date: [1859]Reference: 20705i
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Wounded British soldiers waiting at the station to go home from the Afghan war, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer.
Palmer, William James.Reference: 20707i
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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.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Date: 1500-1599Reference: 43777i
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An old man on crutches with a wooden leg. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818.Date: 1798-1813Reference: 38065i
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A man with a wooden leg pours water into the bowl of a begging woman with two children. Coloured aquatint, 1803, after a painter from Thanjavur.
Date: 30 July 1803Reference: 44088i
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A one-legged man is knocked down by a horse-drawn cart that crushes his wooden leg under its wheels. Coloured etching.
Reference: 44050i
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An amputated leg in a tourniquet supported by a piece of wood that covers the end of the stump. Engraving by J. Beugo.
Reference: 22325i