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Arm - Wounds and injuries

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5 images from works
  • A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling a medicine to a man whose son has a poorly arm. Engraving by P. da Colle after N. Cavalli after F. Maggiotto.
  • A man who has lost use of his limbs by taking a risk. Colour lithograph by R..l (?), 1929.
  • A forearm with three open wounds. Coloured stipple etching after J. Bell, c. 1815 (?).
  • Achilles bandaging the wounded arm of Patroclus. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1936, after an Attic cup by Sosias, c. 500 B.C.

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    A forearm with three open wounds. Coloured stipple etching after J. Bell, c. 1815 (?).

    | John Bell | Reference: 30125i
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    A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.

    | Brooke, Henry, 1738-1806. | Date: 1840 | Reference: 31971i
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    A white trout turns into a woman in white when an uncouth soldier tries to eat it; she complains at the cut on her arm caused by his knife and fork. Etching by S. Lover, 1832.

    | Samuel Lover | Date: [1832] | Reference: 2497704i
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    An itinerant medicine vendor selling a medicine to a man whose son has a poorly arm. Engraving by P. da Colle after N. Cavalli after F. Maggiotto.

    | Maggiotto, Francesco, 1750-1805. | Reference: 20878i
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    Achilles bandaging the wounded arm of Patroclus. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1936, after an Attic cup by Sosias, c. 500 B.C.

    | Sosias, active 500 B.C. | Date: 1936 | Reference: 21294i
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