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Blindness

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  • The rear view of two teddies seated with their arms wrapped around each other and the message in French 'Love is blind. AIDS: Learn, Protect yourself!'; with contact details for the Aids Info SIDA in Brussels. Colour lithograph by René Demarets, ca. 1997.
  • The two angels visitng Lot's house in Sodom pull him back into his house, away from the rapacious, blinded mob. Etching by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet.
  • Oliver Caswell and Laura Bridgman reading embossed letters from a book. Lithograph by W. Sharp, 1844, after A. Fisher.
  • A 'kuttar' or line of blind beggars in a row, two other men in discussion, Kabul, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph after L.W. Hart, 1843.
  • Christ heals the dumb and blind demoniac. Etching.
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Catalogue

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    At the advice of the angel, Tobias carves up the fish to retrieve its medicinal properties. Etching.

    | Reference: 20895i
    • Books

    Von der Augenheilkunde zur Zeit des Mittelalters / Carl Hans Sasse, Wolfgang Jaeger.

    Sasse, Carl Hans, 1901- | Date: 1959
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    A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.

    Westall, Richard, 1765-1836. | Reference: 18362i
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    Mine øjne til honning / S. Ry Andersen.

    Andersen, S. Ry (Sigurd Ry), 1915- | Date: 1997
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    Observations on hemeralopia; or, Nocturnal blindness, with cases, and practical illustrations / by Andrew Simpson.

    | Date: 1819
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