Blindness Collection (#7)

Portrait of Louis Braille (1809-1852) (engraving) (b / w photo)
XIR167836 Portrait of Louis Braille (1809-1852) (engraving) (b/w photo) by French School; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; (add.info.: inventor of the Braille system of writing; ); French

The blind Appius Claudius Caecus speaking in the Roman Senate against Cineas, the ambassador of Pyrrhus of Epiris
3647102 The blind Appius Claudius Caecus speaking in the Roman Senate against Cineas, the ambassador of Pyrrhus of Epiris, 279 BC (engraving) by German School

Elymas the Sorcerer struck blind, Acts (engraving)
2812935 Elymas the Sorcerer struck blind, Acts (engraving) by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio of Urbino) (1483-1520) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Elymas the Sorcerer struck blind, Acts)

Invalid child (chromolitho)
2811586 Invalid child (chromolitho) by Edwards, Mary Ellen (1838-1934); Private Collection; (add.info.: Invalid child. Illustration for Golden Hours by Mrs Sale Barker with illustrations from designs)

A moving confrontation in court (colour litho)
2819131 A moving confrontation in court (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A moving confrontation in court)

Detail from the miniature from the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, Greek evangelists in miniature probably from Antioch of
3573849 Detail from the miniature from the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, Greek evangelists in miniature probably from Antioch of Syria or of Cesarea Palestina

Our Saviour cures the man borne blind (engraving)
2791998 Our Saviour cures the man borne blind (engraving) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Our Saviour cures the man borne blind)

Blind Jack plays his fiddle at the assembly balls (colour litho)
2792510 Blind Jack plays his fiddle at the assembly balls (colour litho) by Ford, Henry Justice (1860-1941); Private Collection; (add.info.: Blind Jack plays his fiddle at the assembly balls)

Help the Blind (engraving)
2781039 Help the Blind (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Help the Blind. Illustration for Chatterbox (1889).); © Look and Learn

Sir John Fielding, the blind Bow Street magistrate (engraving)
3635122 Sir John Fielding, the blind Bow Street magistrate (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sir John Fielding, the blind Bow Street magistrate)

Birmingham (engraving)
3655675 Birmingham (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Birmingham. Illustration for The Imperial Gazetteer, A General Dictionary of Geography (Blackie)

Born Blind (coloured photo)
3643419 Born Blind (coloured photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Born Blind. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

"When Night Sets In The Sun Is Down"(colour litho)
3093605 " When Night Sets In The Sun Is Down" (colour litho) by Woodville, Richard Caton II (1856-1927) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Specimen of the Braille system of printing for the blind (litho)
2808334 Specimen of the Braille system of printing for the blind (litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Specimen of the Braille system of printing for the blind)

Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (chromolitho)
2782711 Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (chromolitho) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky)

Work-School for the Blind, Euston-Road (engraving)
1609501 Work-School for the Blind, Euston-Road (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Work-School for the Blind, Euston-Road)

Valentin Hauy, French pioneer of education for the blind (chromolitho)
972118 Valentin Hauy, French pioneer of education for the blind (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Valentin Hauy (1745-1822)

Sketches in the Life of Mr Fawcett (engraving)
1622896 Sketches in the Life of Mr Fawcett (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sketches in the Life of Mr Fawcett)

"Christ healing the Blind, "by J D Crittenden (engraving)
1588881 " Christ healing the Blind, " by J D Crittenden (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: " Christ healing the Blind)

Institution for the Blind, Manchester-Road, Broomhill, Sheffield (engraving)
1099800 Institution for the Blind, Manchester-Road, Broomhill, Sheffield (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Institution for the Blind, Manchester-Road)

Miss Es Northcote, aged 19, the Born-Blind Performer on the Enharmonic Organ (engraving)
1097962 Miss Es Northcote, aged 19, the Born-Blind Performer on the Enharmonic Organ (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miss Es Northcote, aged 19)

Facsimiles of Original Water Colour Drawings, designed to Satirise the Fashion in Female Head-Dresses of the Year 1828
1046915 Facsimiles of Original Water Colour Drawings, designed to Satirise the Fashion in Female Head-Dresses of the Year 1828 (chromolitho) by Chalon

Blind Girls singing, a Sketch at the Royal Normal College of Music, Upper Norwood (engraving)
1059612 Blind Girls singing, a Sketch at the Royal Normal College of Music, Upper Norwood (engraving) by Macbeth, Robert Walker (1848-1910); Private Collection; (add.info.: Blind Girls singing)

The Healing of the Man born Blind, second half 17th century (tempera on panel)
6199324 The Healing of the Man born Blind, second half 17th century (tempera on panel) by Russian School (17th century); Private Collection; Russian, out of copyright

Love is blind (chromolitho)
5995956 Love is blind (chromolitho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Love is blind. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Caleb Plummer and his Blind Daughter (engraving)
2776943 Caleb Plummer and his Blind Daughter (engraving) by Barnard, Frederick (1846-96) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Caleb Plummer and his Blind Daughter)

Elymas struck with Blindness (engraving)
2781797 Elymas struck with Blindness (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Elymas struck with Blindness)

The Kindergarten for the Blind (litho)
2808331 The Kindergarten for the Blind (litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Kindergarten for the Blind)

Saunderson, aveugle, professeur de mathematiques a l Universite de Cambridge (engraving)
3644502 Saunderson, aveugle, professeur de mathematiques a l Universite de Cambridge (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Saunderson, aveugle)

Francois Huber l aveugle (engraving)
3645371 Francois Huber l aveugle (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Francois Huber l aveugle. Illustration for Le Magasin Pittoresque (1865)

Aveugle ecrivant (engraving)
3645018 Aveugle ecrivant (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Aveugle ecrivant. Illustration for Le Magasin Pittoresque (1859)

Isaac Blessing Jacob, c. 1660-70 (oil on canvas)
3545973 Isaac Blessing Jacob, c.1660-70 (oil on canvas) by Dyck, Abraham van (1635/6-72); 125x108 cm; National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; (add.info.: In the book of Genesis)

Mr Grooms Industrial Training Homes for Afflicted, Blind and Crippled Girls (b / w photo)
3656848 Mr Grooms Industrial Training Homes for Afflicted, Blind and Crippled Girls (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Blind Beggar (colour photo)
3106176 Blind Beggar (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Blind Beggar)

George Dyball, a blind beggar of considerable notoriety, and his dog Nelson (engraving)
664698 George Dyball, a blind beggar of considerable notoriety, and his dog Nelson (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: George Dyball)

Parable of the Blind, detail of a blind man, 1568 (oil on canvas) (detail of 29163)
LEE238436 Parable of the Blind, detail of a blind man, 1568 (oil on canvas) (detail of 29163) by Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (c.1525-69); Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Campania

Blind Old Beggar, c. 1632 (oil on canvas)
ALM283409 Blind Old Beggar, c.1632 (oil on canvas) by Ribera, Jusepe de (lo Spagnoletto) (1591-1652); 124.5x101.7 cm; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio

The Blind, 1908 (bronze)
MAE340539 The Blind, 1908 (bronze) by Charlier, Guillaume (1854-1925); Our Lady of Flanders Cathedral, Tournai, Belgium; (add.info)

Raphigraphy, new method of writing and reading for the blind, 1837 (b / w photo)
CHT253084 Raphigraphy, new method of writing and reading for the blind, 1837 (b/w photo) by German School, (19th century); Bibliotheque de l Institut d Ophtalmologie, Paris

Blind pensioner learning to read (engraving)
608935 Blind pensioner learning to read (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Blind pensioner learning to read; published 1842)

Tobias and the Angel curing the Blindness of Tobit, 1630 (oil on panel)
489094 Tobias and the Angel curing the Blindness of Tobit, 1630 (oil on panel) by Amersfoort, Simon Henrixz van (c.1600-30); 62.8x42 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

Great Globe for Teaching, ordered in 1833 to Hesteter by the Institute for Young Blind in
CHT163937 Great Globe for Teaching, ordered in 1833 to Hesteter by the Institute for Young Blind in Paris (bronze) (b/w photo) (detail) (see also 163936) by French School

Three blind young women in costume dancing on stage in a play at the New York Association
MNY380980 Three blind young women in costume dancing on stage in a play at the New York Association for the Blind, New York

Children playing in the playroom at the New York Association for the Blind
MNY380958 Children playing in the playroom at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street, New York, 1935 (silver gelatin print) by Byron Company (fl.1890-1942)

Nurse and a visually impaired girl at the clinic of the New York Association for
MNY380948 Nurse and a visually impaired girl at the clinic of the New York Association for the Blind, 114 East 60th Street, New York

A blind street musician, New York, 1898 (silver gelatin print)
MNY381172 A blind street musician, New York, 1898 (silver gelatin print) by Byron Company (fl.1890-1942); 20.3x25.4 cm; Museum of the City of New York, USA; eMuseum of the City of New York; American

Blind woman, Miss Harding, at the piano instructing two blind men on the violin and cello
MNY380977 Blind woman, Miss Harding, at the piano instructing two blind men on the violin and cello, 1936 (silver gelatin print) by Byron Company (fl.1890-1942)

Portrait of blind African American man reading braille at the New York Association for
MNY380974 Portrait of blind African American man reading braille at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street, New York

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Blindness, a profound condition that transcends time and cultures, has been depicted in various forms of art throughout history. From Simeon in the Temple by Rembrandt to Oedipe et Antigone by Karl Pavlovich Briullov, these masterpieces capture the struggles and triumphs of those who navigate life without sight. In 1668-1669, Rembrandt's Simeon in the Temple portrays an elderly man with impaired vision seeking solace within sacred walls. His blind eyes reflect wisdom gained through a lifetime of experiences. Louis Braille, the brilliant inventor behind raised-point writing system for visually impaired individuals, revolutionized education for countless people worldwide. His innovation empowered them to communicate and learn independently. The John Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission stands as a testament to society's efforts to support those affected by blindness. This organization provided care and opportunities for blind individuals during challenging times. Karl Pavlovich Briullov's painting depicts a heartwarming scene where a young girl guides her aging father with visual impairment. The bond between them is evident as she selflessly aids him on his journey through life. Even war could not extinguish the resilience of blind soldiers like the Italian soldier from World War I. Their courage serves as inspiration despite facing unimaginable hardships on both physical and emotional levels. Luigi Groto, an Italian poet who lost his sight later in life due to illness, continued creating beautiful verses despite his darkness. His poetic spirit shines brightly even when surrounded by shadows. Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria under an electron microscope reminds us that they are also be caused by diseases such as trachoma—a preventable yet devastating ailment affecting millions around the world today. Artistic depictions like The Waters of Lethe remind us that blindness is not limited to physical sight alone; it can also manifest metaphorically as forgetfulness or loss of memory.