Futility Closet

John Carter

Posted in Art, Oddities by Greg Ross on February 19th, 2008

http://books.google.com/books?id=I-kHAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22memoir+of+john+carter%22&rview=1&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0

Paralyzed in a fall in 1836, John Carter discovered a talent for art, holding a brush in his teeth and working in bed. The figures below are after Albrecht Dürer.

http://books.google.com/books?id=I-kHAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22memoir+of+john+carter%22&rview=1&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0

See also No Handicap, Sarah Biffen, and Prince Randian.