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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.
  • Disabled and paralysed people lying outside a wall of the cemetery Santo Spirito in Rome begging for alms from passers-by. Coloured lithograph by F. Villain after A.J.-B. Thomas, 1823.
  • Three musicians, one in drag, in masks for an "Olympia" masked ball.
  • The halt and the blind being invited to the great supper. Mezzotint by J.E. Haid after J.M. Denzel.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.
  • An invalid boy in a Bath chair outside an open air sleeping-chalet. Photograph by W. Ames, ca. 1900.
  • A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.
  • A one-legged man is knocked down by a horse-drawn cart that crushes his wooden leg under its wheels. Coloured etching.
  • A man with crutches sits in despair in front of a blueprint for a penny-farthing wheelchair. Colour lithograph after O. Kacher, 19--.
  • A group of beggars, one playing the violin, the other walking with the aid of a stick holding out a hat to collect alms. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • A ragged beggar carrying a banner reading "Capitano de baroni" leads a procession of lame people and beggars out of a village. Etching after J. Callot.
  • A group of gay men including a transvestite, a black man and a man in a wheelchair sit having a picnic on a check blanket in a field with the message: "A family takes care"; an advertisement for the support services for gay men affected by AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.