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2.
- Creator:
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 June 1827]
- Call Number:
- 827.06.21.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The platform extends across the centre of the design. Below are the audience, three-quarter length and half-length, standing and seated. A man in patched clothes stands in the front of the semicircle of men seated on the platform, holding out his emp...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pulished [sic] June 21, 1827, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Name):
- British and Foreign Bible Society. and Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
- Subject (Topic):
- Meetings, Stages (Platforms), Ethnic stereotypes, Poor persons, Bibles, Clergy, and Audiences
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A meeting for the conversion of the benighted Irish [graphic]
3.
- 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 h...
- Alternative Title:
- Scraps thankfully received
- Description:
- Title, a quote from Hamlet, written in ink beneath image.
- 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]
4.
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately January 1828]
- Call Number:
- 828.01.00.06+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Eldon as a street-beggar kneels on both knees on straw placed on paving-stones, wearing a cap resembling those worn by butchers and the rags of a Chancellor's gown over tattered breeches. He supports himself by a staff, and holds out his short powder...
- Alternative Title:
- To a benevolent public
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Beggars, Poor persons, Staffs (Sticks), Wigs, Bags, Dogs, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Case of frightful destitution the fatal effects of getting out of chancery!!! / [graphic]
5.
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1829]
- Call Number:
- 829.00.00.117+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An old woman in patched-up clothes with her harp huddles in a doorway. The satire contrasts the life of a street singer with the sweet lyrics of the popular ballad by Thomas Moore
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
- Subject (Name):
- Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
- Subject (Topic):
- Street musicians, Harps, Older people, Poor persons, Women, and Doors & doorways
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Does the harp of Rosa slumber [graphic]
6.
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1841]
- Call Number:
- 841.00.00.37+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the left, poor emaciated laborers are chained to the ground while above them dangle bread, meat and beer just out of their reach. Behind them a building inscribed 'Poor Law Union'. The ground is inscribed 'Land of the free'. A crowd of people enter...
- Description:
- Title from text below image.
- Publisher:
- Printed and published by B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848
- Subject (Topic):
- Poor persons, Laborers, Chains, Bread, Meat, Beer, Tunnels, Jails, Politicians, and Public speaking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > England in the nineteenth century!!
7.
- Creator:
- Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1833 and 1835]
- Call Number:
- Maidment N555 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Design consisting of twenty-six small images, each with a caption below except for the center image, which has its caption "-- the CENTRE of gravity" within top portion of image
- Description:
- Title from text at top of design; letter "z" in "Magazine" is reversed.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd at No. 26 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, where may be had a great variety
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
- Subject (Topic):
- Punishment & torture, Kings, Hangings (Executions), Gallows, Families, Barrels, Rowboats, Poor persons, Almshouses, Alcoholic beverages, Indigenous peoples, Card games, Candles, Bagpipes, Fighting, Carts & wagons, Hand lenses, Hairdressing, and Eating & drinking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece to the Mechanics Magazine [graphic]
8.
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- Jany. 10th, 1834.
- Call Number:
- Maidment G761 no. 14 Box 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men in ragged clothing eat soup from a single large bowl on a table. The man on the left has risen out of his seat and holds up his fork, from which hangs the wig of the man sitting across the table, who wears a bandana covering his bald head. The...
- Description:
- Title from text below image.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Squr
- Subject (Topic):
- Poor persons, Eating & drinking, Bowls (Tableware), Soups, Baldness, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hair soup!! [graphic]
9.
- Published / Created:
- [1830s?]
- Call Number:
- Maidment Un58 no. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An Irishman, wearing tattered clothing and holding a cudgel, converses with three well dressed men at a table in front of a poor box, the words "Guardians of the Poor" faintly visible on the wall behind them. The Irishman appears obstinate, and the th...
- Description:
- Title from dialogue below image.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethnic stereotypes, Poor persons, Poor boxes, Charity, and Writing materials
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > If you dont give me relief I shall be druv to a deed my soul abhors! Gracious what's that good man? Vy, to vurk!!. [graphic]
10.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1810]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A hideous, ragged woman looks amorously at her male companion, a burly dustman, as they sift through cinders; two others kneel at their feet, one also using a sieve to sift through the cinders while her companion drinks gin. In the foreground are the ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 4, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 11 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Love, Poor persons, and Refuse disposal
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Love and dust [graphic]
