Gallery

Disabilities in art

This gallery features depictions of disabilities in artworks across centuries, reflecting the diverse lives, experiences and treatment of people with disabilities. Gallery curated with #DisabilityHistory twitter community

Curated by Published gallery

40 items

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Rijksmuseum

A man with a wooden leg prosthesis. Photograph, ca. 1915.

Wellcome Collection

Guillaume de Limoge, a crippled street singer. Etching by G. Audran.

Gérard Audran

Wellcome Collection

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Benaki Museum

Blind Girl 18 September 1967

Örebro Kuriren

Örebro County Museum

Fig. 177 - Appearance of patient with artificial legs.

Wellcome Collection

The blind leading the blind. Oil painting after Pieter Bruegel.

Pieter Bruegel

Wellcome Collection

A shoeless blind girl is led by a dog on a path. Stipple engraving by T. Gaugain, 1785, af…

James Northcote

Wellcome Collection

Blind

Hieronymus Bosch

Wellcome Collection

An invalid boy in a Bath chair outside an open air

Wellcome Collection

A blind man assisted by another man

Fritz Wrampe

Wellcome Collection

Mat Fraser holding two prosthetic arms at Blythe House

Richard Sandell, RCMG

Wellcome Collection

Hannah Thatcher, deaf and dumb since birth, taught to hear and speak by W. Wright. Stipple…

Rose Emma. Drummond

Wellcome Collection

A man with a wooden leg sings while he is accompanied by a blind man playing the flute and…

Wellcome Collection

A barber in his shop preparing to shave a customer. Coloured etching.

Wellcome Collection

The halt and the blind being summoned to the great supper. Oil painting by Joost Cornelisz…

Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot

Wellcome Collection

A blind beggar walks past two figures guided by his dog with a begging bowl. Etching by J.…

John Thomas Smith

Wellcome Collection

John Donaldson, a simpleton. Etching.

Wellcome Collection

[Depublished item]
Lane, Differentiation..., 1892: boy suffering from arthritis

Wellcome Collection

Klaas Nar

Rijksmuseum

Blind Joe (Street Violinist)

Majsch, Eduard

Slovak national gallery

Blind Boy, 11 June 1966 A blind boy aged ten in striped T-shirt plays a record that is on…

Örebro Kuriren

Örebro County Museum

Illustration of prosthetic a hand. Ambroise Pare, 1564.

Wellcome Collection

Birgitta (Brita) Johansdotter 1680-1763, piga

Okänd

Nationalmuseum Sweden

The Old Blind Woman

Fanny Brate

Nationalmuseum Sweden

Prosthetic hands with spoon attachments.

Wellcome Collection

A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a …

Wellcome Collection

A one-legged man in rags moving with the aid of crutches is accompanied by a child with a …

Wellcome Collection

The Institut National des Sourds-Muets, Paris: interior showing voters for the National As…

Wellcome Collection

An old blind man holding a child walks guided by his stick and dog. Coloured watercolour d…

Wellcome Collection

The victim of a railway accident approaching the railway board's directors for compensatio…

C.W. D.

Wellcome Collection

A group of blind Japanese men leave a house

Sukenobu Nishikawa

Wellcome Collection

Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic. Engraving after a self portrait.

Matthias Buchinger

Wellcome Collection

Rheumatism, gout treated by mesmerism

Wellcome Collection

Samuel Horsey, a crippled beggar. Stipple engraving, 1803.

Wellcome Collection

Lupus Erythematosus. Chromolithograph. c. 1878-1888

E. Burgess

Wellcome Collection

[Depublished item]
Epilepsy women walking to the left

Hendrik Hondius the Elder (Stecher)

The Albertina Museum

Karl Franz Grüner

Philipp von Stubenpp (artist); Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (author)

Theater Museum Vienna