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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.
  • Tobias curing the blindness of Tobit, with Anna and Raphael. Oil painting after G. Zocchi.
  • A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • A blind beggar holds out his hat for money. Woodcut and colour mezzotint by C.W.E. Dietrich, 1757.
  • A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.
  • A winged, blindfolded woman; representing avarice. Engraving by G. Pencz.
  • Christ cures blind Bartimeus by laying his hand on his eyes. Etching.
  • Tobias under the guidance of the archangel Raphael, cures Tobit's blindness using a 'fish-gall'. Etching by A. de Marcenay de Ghuy, 1755, after Rembrandt.
  • A sheet with the materials, tools and diagrams for weaving? a braille pad. Line engraving.
  • Tobias restoring the eyesight of Tobit. Oil painting by a Dutch painter, 17th century.
  • Yorkshire School for the Blind, York, England. Tinted lithograph.
  • John Stanley, a blind musician. Line engraving, 1784.
  • Eyes cannot be replaced / issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ; [designed by G.R. Morris].
  • A rosary, a medallion of St Benedict, a charm said to cause loss of eyesight, and hands showing lines and features to be interpreted by palmistry (including lines forecasting violent death); all illustrating 'superstition'. Engraving.
  • Paul undergoes a mystical experience on the way to Damascus; he falls from his horse. Mezzotint by G.H. Every after H. Dayes.
  • Concerning the blind : being a historical sketch of organised effort on behalf of the blind of Great Britain, and some thoughts concerning the mental life of a person born blind / by J.M. Ritchie.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • The Institut National des Aveugles-nés, Paris: interior during the visit of Pope Pius VII. Aquatint with etching by Marlé, 1805.
  • John Metcalf, a blind man, aged 88. Stipple engraving, 1864.
  • The Institut National des Aveugles-nés, Paris: interior during the visit of Pope Pius VII. Aquatint with etching by Marlé, 1805.
  • A blind beggar sits, head lowered, hand begging for money. Etching by J. Zubau, 1865.
  • An aged blind and toothless woman holding a vellum-bound book. Etching by W.Y. Ottley, 1828, after Jan Matham after Jacob van Campen.
  • A young man who walks straight into a butcher delivery boy's meat tray (poking his eye out), while the boy looks the opposite way. Etching by Richard Dighton.
  • A shoeless blind girl is led by a dog on a path. Sepia stipple engraving by T. Gaugain, 1785, after J. Northcote.
  • A blind beggar stands with a boy beside a church, Cadiz, Spain. Coloured lithograph by A. Arrom after himself.
  • Tobias restoring the eyesight of Tobit. Oil painting by a Dutch painter, 17th century.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • The New Molyneux Church and Asylum for Blind Females, Dublin, Ireland. Transfer lithograph by W.M. Morrison, 1860, after R. Carroll.
  • A shoeless blind girl is led by a dog on a path. Stipple engraving by T. Gaugain, 1785, after J. Northcote.