The left and right hands of the eighteenth-century British musical prodigies, William Crotch and Samuel Wesley.

The musical prodigy William Crotch (1775-1847) used his left hand for many activities including the playing of stringed instruments, drawing and painting. Information on Crotch's handedness is available in both his own writings and watercolours, and in various portraits. This paper will use Crotch and his handedness to help illuminate how left-handedness was viewed at the end of the eighteenth century, and will also consider the handedness of another near-contemporary musical prodigy, Samuel Wesley (1766-1837).

A Left Handed Compliment: A newly discovered, early nineteenth-century lithograph by John Lewis Marks.

A newly discovered, early nineteenth-century lithograph by John Lewis Marks (b. ca. 1795-1796, d.