Amputation Collection

Dick Dock, or the Lobster and Crab, 1806. Scene outside an alehouse by the River Thames. A Greenwich Pensioner with a wooden leg takes the hand of a soldier

Fitzroy HJ Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, British soldier, 19th century. In the course of his distinguished military career, Lord Raglan served on Wellingtons staff from 1808-1812

The Story of Sedan: "Fighting his Battles o'er Again", 1871. Creator: Joseph Swain
The Story of Sedan: "Fighting his Battles o'er Again", 1871. 'Looking back a twelvemonth and remembering the state of Europe a day or two before Christmas last year, when the German armies

Cutting off a foot -- Canadian Hospital, Le Touquet, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Cutting off a foot -- Canadian Hospital, Le Touquet, between 1914 and c1915. Shows a foot amputation at the Canadian base hospital in the Hotel du Golf, Le Touquet, France during World War I

Cripple going to pray at St. Anne relic, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Cripple going to pray at St. Anne relic, between c1910 and c1915

Gen. Dan. Sickles in wheelchair, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Gen. Dan. Sickles in wheelchair, 1912

Beggar with a wooden leg, c.1630. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Beggar with a wooden leg, c.1630

The War in Denmark: temporary field hospital...scene in the amputating hut... 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in Denmark: temporary field hospital behind the second Prussian parallel at Duppel: scene in the amputating hut - from a sketch by our special artist

Platonic Love, May 30, 1807. May 30, 1807. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Platonic Love, May 30, 1807

Englishwoman martyred by the Chinese, 1930. Creator: Unknown
Englishwoman martyred by the Chinese, 1930. Une Anglaise Martyrisee Par Des Chinois. A terrified woman is restrained as her fingers are cut off with a knife on a wooden block

Telegraph lesson - crippled soldiers, 06 Feb 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Telegraph lesson - crippled soldiers, 06 Feb 1919. Two soldiers, amputee veterans of World War I, leaning to use a telegraph at a vocational school for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital

The War in the Herzegovina: Refugees begging outside an hotel at Ragusa, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The War in the Herzegovina: Refugees begging outside an hotel at Ragusa [Dubrovnik], 1876. The Delegations of Austria and Hungary were opened on Monday

L'Arrivee du General Pershing; Sur le quai de Boulogne: accompagne du general Pelletier... 1917. Creator: Unknown
L'Arrivee du General Pershing; Sur le quai de Boulogne: accompagne du general Pelletier, ampute du bras droit, chef de la mission militaire francaise attachee a l'armee americaine

Former general as a street musician, 1895-1899. Creator: Jan de Waardt
Former general as a street musician, 1895-1899. A veteran who was a general in the Dutch East Indies, and lost his left leg in battle, tries to earn money as a busker by singing to a barrel organ

Cartoon on the retreat of Napoleon from Russia, 1812-1814. Creator: Jacob Smies
Cartoon on the retreat of Napoleon from Russia, 1812-1814. On the right is Napoleon with a stocking on his head and followed by creepy-crawlies

The Transept of the Mariakerk in Utrecht, Seen from the Northeast, 1637. Creator: Pieter Jansz Saenredam
The Transept of the Mariakerk in Utrecht, Seen from the Northeast, 1637. Other Title(s): The Transept of the Mariakerk in Utrecht, Seen from the Northeast

Inspection of the Royal Sappers and Miners at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, by Sir John Burgoyne, 1856 Creator: Unknown
Inspection of the Royal Sappers and Miners at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, by Sir John Burgoyne, 1856. More than ordinary interest attached to the occasion

Soldiers Reading-Room, St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Soldiers Reading-Room, St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, 1856. The annual return of between three and four thousand soldiers from India and the British Colonies - who, either from impaired health

Usant jusqu'a son dernier homme et son dernier mousquet, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Usant jusqu'a son dernier homme et son dernier mousquet, 19th century. Amputee and soldier with gun: Down to his last man and his last musket

General Alvaro Obregon of Mexico, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. General Alvaro Obregon of Mexico, 1917
General Alvaro Obregon of Mexico, 1917. Obregon had his right arm blown off during a battle in 1915. The arm was preserved in a jar of formaldehyde

Presentation of Roman medals to Baker & March, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Presentation of Roman medals to Baker & March, between 1910 and 1920. [US Army General Peyton Conway March (centre) shaking hands with one-armed man. To March's left is Newton Diehl Baker Jr

Dedication to the Fatherland of a man whose arm has just been amputated, c1793. Creator: Jean-Baptiste Bizard
Dedication to the Fatherland of a man whose arm has just been amputated, c1793

Sheet of Sketches, 1828. Creator: Auguste Raffet
Sheet of Sketches, 1828

Bronze Relief, by Ternouth, for the Nelson Monument, Trafalgar-Square... 1850. Creator: Unknown
Bronze Relief, by Ternouth, for the Nelson Monument, Trafalgar-Square - the Bombardment of Copenhagen, 1850. The Bombardment of Copenhagen is the incident in the life of the great Admiral forming

Two men, one of them an amputee, around 1875. Creator: Joseph Eugen Horwarter
Two men, one of them an amputee, around 1875

Young boy standing in the doorway of his home on Seaton Road... Washington, D.C, 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Young boy standing in the doorway of his home on Seaton Road in the northwest section. His leg was cut off by a streetcar while he was playing in the street

Americus V. Rice of Ohio, 1865-1880. Creator: Unknown
Americus V. Rice of Ohio, 1865-1880. Rice, Hon. Rep. Americus V. of Ohio, between 1865 and 1880. [Politician, banker, businessman and soldier: served in the 21st Ohio Infantry

Aid to Those Mutilated in the War, plate one from Actualites, 5570

Helping the Wounded, 1915. Creator: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
Helping the Wounded, 1915

Hookey Alf, of White Chapel, 1881. Creator: John Thomson
Hookey Alf, of White Chapel, 1881. A work made of woodburytype, plate 14 in the book " street incidents" (1881)

Having said that, this poor invalid gives us a curtsy, and goes hobbling off from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals, ca. 1837-47

No. 4: Cook, February 15, 1799. Creator: Henri Merke
No. 4: Cook, February 15, 1799

Beggar with Wooden Leg. Creator: Unknown
Beggar with Wooden Leg

Cripple with Crutch and Wooden Leg, c. 1622. Creator: Jacques Callot
Cripple with Crutch and Wooden Leg, c. 1622

Beggar with Wooden Leg, c. 1622. Creator: Jacques Callot
Beggar with Wooden Leg, c. 1622

Saturn from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets, 1525. Creator: Master I. B
Saturn from The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets, 1525

Beggar with a Wooden Leg, ca. 1630. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Beggar with a Wooden Leg, ca. 1630

Caricature Shop of Piercy Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn, 1801. Creator: Piercy Roberts
Caricature Shop of Piercy Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn, 1801

Soldier with a pegleg, mid-19th century. Creator: Victor Adam
Soldier with a pegleg, mid-19th century

The Swiss Sentry at the Louvre, 1819. Creator: Theodore Gericault
The Swiss Sentry at the Louvre, 1819

Excised Knee Joint. A Round Musket Ball in the Inner Condyle of the Right Femur [Gardiner Lewis, Company B, Nineteenth Indiana Volunteers], 1866-67

Armory Square Hospital, Interior of Ward K, ca. 1863. Creator
Armory Square Hospital, Interior of Ward K, ca. 1863

Herman Rice, 1865. Creator: Reed Brockway Bontecou
Herman Rice, 1865

Stephen D. Wilbur, 1865. Creator: Reed Brockway Bontecou
Stephen D. Wilbur, 1865

Disabled Union Soldiers Posed in Aid of the U. S. Sanitary Commission at the New Yor
Disabled Union Soldiers Posed in Aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission at the New York Metropolitan Fair, April 1864

Washington. Armory Square Hospital, 1861-65. Creator: Unknown
Washington. Armory Square Hospital, 1861-65

Amputation, February 17, 1786. February 17, 1786. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Amputation, February 17, 1786

A Bit of War History: The Veteran, 1866. Creator: Thomas Waterman Wood
A Bit of War History: The Veteran, 1866

John De Medici, (1498-1526), 1830. Creator: Unknown
John De Medici, (1498-1526), 1830. Lodovico de Medici (1498-1526) Italian condottiero who carried arms for Pope Leo X and Francis I of France, shot in battle near Governolo

A wounded man attempts to stand up to receive his medal, 1915. Creator: Unknown
A wounded man attempts to stand up to receive his medal, 1915. " La medaille militaire, mon general, c est debout qu il convient de la recevoir"

Wherefore doth fasten yet thy sight below amongst the maim d and miserable shades?
But Virgil roused me: " What yet gazest on? Wherefore doth fasten yet thy sight below amongst the maim d and miserable shades?", c1890

Jupiter, 1757. Artist: Bernard de Montfaucon
Jupiter, 1757. From a sculpture in the Chateau de Versailles. A plate from Supplement au livre de L antiquite expliquee et representee en figures, Paris, 1757. Private Collection

Sir Brook Watson, Bart. Chairman of Lloyds 1796-1806, c1803, (1928)
Sir Brook Watson, Bart. Chairman of Lloyds 1796-1806, 1928. From A History of Lloyd s, by Charles Wright and C. Ernest Fayle. [Macmillan and Company Limited, London, 1928]

Napoleon and Marshal Lannes at Essling, 1809, (1896). Artist: William Baxter Palmer Closson
Napoleon and Marshal Lannes at Essling, 1809, (1896). Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) with Marshal Jean Lannes, Duc de Montebello, Prince de Sievers

Greenwich Pensioners, 1808. Artist: John Augustus Atkinson
Greenwich Pensioners, 1808. Two figures, one seated and the other standing

A Greenwich Pensioner, c1800. The man, with a wooden leg and a crutch under one arm, points to the Greenwich Hospital across the River Thames

All the worlds a stage... London, c1824. Artist: W Taylor
All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players, London, c1824 Shows a group of amputees, jugglers, street musicians etc. at the corner of Golden Lane

Surgical Instruments, 1639, (1903). From Social England, Volume IV, edited by H.D. Traill, D.C.L. and J. S. Mann, M.A. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1903]

The Polling, Plate III from The Humours of an Election, 1757. Artist: William Hogarth
The Polling, Plate III from The Humours of an Election, 1757. This series of four plates depicts the Oxfordshire parliamentary election of 1754

Portrait of a Man on Crutches, c1710 (1958). Red chalk on white paper. Likely a portrait of Watteaus friend, the journalist Antoine de la Roque

Amputation. A clumsy carpenter saws his own leg off

Princess Charlotte Augusta, 1820. Artist: J Hopwood
Princess Charlotte Augusta, 1820. Drawn by H Corbould from Mr Percys esteemed wax model

Late Reward for Jean-Henry Phelipot, 1901. Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 17th March 1901

The wounded soldiers toast to the Queen, c1850s, (1888). A soldier who has lost a hand, possibly in the Crimean War, raises his glass to Queen Victoria

The Race of the Wooden Legs, 1895. Artist: Henri Meyer
The Race of the Wooden Legs, 1895. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 24th March 1895

Augustus. Known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, first and among the most important of the Roman Emperors

L Executif 1870-1871. Artist: Pilotell
L Executif 1870-1871. Cartoon from La Caricature depicting France losing Alsace-Lorraine to Germany, the consequence of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871. From a private collection

Arm being amputated without anaesthetic, Russo-Turkish War, 1877. Turkish wounded being attended to by the Red Crescent

Shippens Successful Amputation at the Hip Joint, American Civil War, 1865. Mortality from this procedure was in excess of 70%. From Circular No.6, Surgeon Generals Office

Amputation of a leg without anaesthetic, 1593. A surgeon uses a bow-saw to remove a patients leg blow the knee while his assistant holds the foot

The Election: The Polling, 18th-19th century. Plate II of a series of four illustrations. An old soldier tenders his oath but is challenged by an advocate as, having lost his right hand

The 15th of August of bygone days, 1891. A gathering of French war veterans. 15th August was the date of the holiday of St Napoleon in the days of the French Empire

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