Disabilities in art

The Bible recounts how Jacob, pretending to be his brother Esau, tricked their blind father into bestowing Esau’s rightful blessing on him. The idea of imitating Esau’s hirsute arms by wearing animal-skin gloves came from their mother Rebecca, who looks o…

Lettering: Accession number: PHO. 889.

Lettering: Voicy le portrait et l'eloge de ce chantre fameux nommé Guillaume de Limoge autrement le gaillard boiteux ... G. Audran sculp

The deaf man, 1941. Oil painting, 0,66 x 0,465 m. Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika (ΠΧΓ 25)

Blind Girl 18 September 1967

Fig. 177 - Appearance of patient with artificial legs after amputation.

Lettering: Blind girl of the environs of Rome. ... T. Gaugain sculpt. ; J. Northcote delt.

Lettering: Ductorem caeco caecus se praebuit alter, Quod vel nunc usu saepe venire solet. Quid restat nisi quod callis male gnarus uterque Tandem praelargam corruat in foveam.

A boy or young man, suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, sits in a Bath chair in front of his chalet accompanied by a woman (presumably his mother). The chalet contains a bed and a chair and is open, possibly to allow fresh air to circulate for the bene…

Lettering: Blinden.

Portrait of artist and performer Mat Fraser, standing in front of a wall in Blythe House holding two prosthetic arms. This is one of a series of portraits taken to accompany the research project "Stories of a Different Kind" initiated by the Res…

Lettering: Miss Hannah Thatcher, born deaf & dumb who was presented to the late Queen Charlotte on acquiring the sense of hearing & the faculty of speech under the treatment of Mr. Wright, her Majestys surgeon aurist with whom she now resides, in …

Lettering: A stuttering barber. ; Pray friend did you ever shave a monkey? N_n_no sir, but_if_if you will_s_s_sit down I'll_t_t_try.

Lettering: John Donaldson, a poor idiot who usually walked before funeral processions at Edinburgh.

Rheumatoid arthritis in an eight year old boy.

Portret van Claus von Rangstädt, hofnar in dienst van Johann Friedrich von Sachsen, in een architectonische omlijsting met de personificaties Veritas, Prudentia en Fama. Onder het portret in de omlijsting een zesregelige tekst in het Duits.

POZN: Obraz bol prvýkrát vystavený na jarnej výstave Umeleckého spolku v Bratislave v roku 1888. Pôvodný názov diela bol Umenie si zarába na svoj chlieb (Die Kunst geht nach Brod). Reštaurované: M.Bidelnicová, 2000 Lit.: Pressburger Zeitung 8.5.1888, č. …

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

Illustration of a prosthetic hand. Hand painted wood engraving.

Plate 8. Photograph of Mr. C- C- with prosthetic hands and spoon attachments for eating. He was injured during a shooting accident in Central Africa in May 1891, which resulted in the amputation of both hands.

Lettering: Voting for the National Assembly in the theatre of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Paris.

Lettering: A railway board's - "Court of conscience" - victim and directors. C.W.D. 1866.

Lettering: Lettering in Japanese.; A group of blind men and their attendants leaving a house while a group of women with a dog watch them

Lettering: London, April the 29th. 1724. This is the effigies of Mr. Matthew Buchinger ...

Rheumatism and gout being treated by mesmerism

Lettering: Samuel Horsey, aged 55. A singular beggar in the streets of London.

This image shows a young male with Lupus Erythematosus. This auto-immune disease is classified into two types. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) which involves multiple parts of the body and Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE) where only the skin is affect…

Inscription: left and right “2”; M.u. "Hhondius sculp. 1642. Cum pr."

Figure/Person: Karl Franz Grüner