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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:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 80. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Print of five clergymen over-indulging with food and drink in the Vestry room. They sit around a large table drinking, one member, with his foot bound with gout sits with his back to the viewer. On the left a footman kicks away a family of beggars fr...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Topic):
- Gout, Crutches, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Doors & doorways, Servants, Poor persons, and Beggars
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A select vestry [graphic]
4.
- 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]
5.
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1833]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Politicians and chancellor after the woolsack fire, begging for money to John Bull."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Pleading (Begging), Poor persons, Bagpipes, and Cats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Burnt out and no mistake [graphic]
6.
- 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]
7.
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 31 Box D180
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man places a coin in the hat of an old, one-eyed beggar who leans on a crutch
- Description:
- Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand.
- Subject (Topic):
- Beggars, Misers, Charity, Poor persons, Hats, and Crutches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Compassion!! [art original]
8.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1772]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 106. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A rotund cobbler leans against a table in his shop, looking down at a cup of tea he stirs with his right hand, a teapot sitting beside the cup and saucer on the table. He holds a knife in his left hand and wears a large coat, an apron, and a looped tr...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Poor persons, Shoemakers, Shoemaking, Pails, Pipes (Smoking), Teapots, Hats, Aprons, and Knives
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Contentment in poverty [graphic].
9.
- 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]
10.
- 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!!