Call Number: Drawings C319 no. 1 Box D115 - Yale University Library Search Results

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Creator:: Carruthers, William, active 1824, artist
Published / Created:: [1824]
Call Number:: Drawings C319 no. 1 Box D115
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Watercolor of a beggar dressed in ragged, patched clothes, leaning on two crutches and wearing a bag slung across his body with the words "Scraps thankfully received" lettered upon it. He wears an eye patch on his right eye; a pipe sticks out of his hat
Alternative Title:: Scraps thankfully received
Description:: Title, a quote from Hamlet, written in ink beneath image., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower portion of image. Artist's full name "Wm. Carruthers Esqre." is written within wash-line border at bottom., and For a lithograph of this design in reverse, published March 1825 by E. Hull and Rowe & Walker, see Wellcome Collection reference: 664653i.
Subject (Topic):: Beggars, Poor persons, Refuse disposal, Bags, Crutches, Eye patches, and Pipes (Smoking)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A thing of shreds and patches. Hamlet [art original]