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1. The drunkard's progress from the pawnbroker's to the gin shop from thence to the workhouse thence to the goal & ultimately to the scaffold. [graphic]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852
Published / Created:: January 1st, 1834.
Call Number:: 834.01.01.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender's shop to the "Temple of Juniper: Best gin". In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
Description:: Title from text below image., The prints for Every body's album & caricature magazine were made by C.J. Grant. See British Museum online catalogue., Publisher from dealer's description., Text following date: To be continued once on every fortnight., Text below series title: An original pictorial comical satirical political sentimental caustical whimsical philosophical topographical theatrical theological poetical pastoral rumbostical moral periodical., "Excuse us pray if we do our best, to make as much waste paper as the rest!"--Above image., and "Price 6d plain and 1s colour'd."--Above image, right edge.
Publisher:: J. Kendrick
Subject (Topic):: Almshouses, City & town life, Families, Gin, Jails, Intoxication, Poor persons, Poverty, and Pawnshops
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The drunkard's progress from the pawnbroker's to the gin shop from thence to the workhouse thence to the goal & ultimately to the scaffold. [graphic]

2. The drunkard's progress from the pawnbroker's to the gin shop from thence to the workhouse thence to the goal & ultimately to the scaffold. [graphic]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852
Published / Created:: January 1st, 1834.
Call Number:: 832.00.00.37
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender's shop to the "Temple of Juniper: Best gin". In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
Description:: Title from text below image., The prints for Every body's album & caricature magazine were made by C.J. Grant. See British Museum online catalogue., Publisher from dealer's description., Text following date: To be continued once on every fortnight., Text below series title: An original pictorial comical satirical political sentimental caustical whimsical philosophical topographical theatrical theological poetical pastoral rumbostical moral periodical., "Excuse us pray if we do our best, to make as much waste paper as the rest!"--Above image., "Price 6d plain and 1s colour'd."--Above image, right edge., and Imperfect, sheet trimmed with loss of text above image: 17.4 x 26.1 cm.
Publisher:: J. Kendrick
Subject (Topic):: Almshouses, City & town life, Families, Gin, Jails, Intoxication, Poor persons, Poverty, and Pawnshops
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The drunkard's progress from the pawnbroker's to the gin shop from thence to the workhouse thence to the goal & ultimately to the scaffold. [graphic]

3. Effects of the new bastardy law [graphic]

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:: "Chancellor and bishop bringing newborn children carried on a wheelbarrow to the workhouse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "(60)" in brown ink in top center portion of design., Mounted on blue paper backing., and No. 60.
Publisher:: Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Infants, Wheelbarrows, and Almshouses
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Effects of the new bastardy law [graphic]

4. Interior of an English workhouse* under the new Poor Law Act [graphic].

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:: "Emaciated and shaven-headed paupers treated as slaves by cruel overseers: adults beating hemp and children picking rope in the foreground, others in the background manacled to the wall or hanging from the ceiling, tied up by their feet and hands; to right, a manager with a scourge seizing an elderly man, and a man pulling a cart, which he says is full of dead infants to be sold to surgeons; to left, a manager turning away the starving poor who beg to be let in."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from item., Text below title: Dedicated to those two ugly old women, Mothers Brougham and Martineau., Asterisk in title is explained by note below image, in lower right: * For workhouse, read slave house., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., and No. 57.
Publisher:: Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton-Street, Clare-Market
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):: Almshouses, Children, Forced labor, British, Punishment & torture, Poor persons, Law and legislation, Poor laws, and Political satire, English
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Interior of an English workhouse* under the new Poor Law Act [graphic].

5. Workhouse, St. James's Parish [graphic]

Creator:: Sunderland, 19th century, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 December 1809]
Call Number:: Print00842
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title and date from item., In margin upper right: Plate 96., From: William Combs, The Microcosm of London, 3 vols., London: R. Ackermann, 1808-1810., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: Pub. Decr. 1st, 1809. at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):: Almshouses, Workhouses, Poor persons, Sewing, Textiles, and Needlework
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Workhouse, St. James's Parish [graphic]

6. Workhouse, St. James's Parish [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 December 1809]
Call Number:: Quarto 646 808 M58 v.3
Collection Title:: V. 3 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Interior view of the women's common room of the workhouse, situated on Poland Street; slim columns supporting ceiling; women sit on benches at tables."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 96., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 242., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:: Pub. Decr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):: Saint James (Westminster, London, England : Parish)
Subject (Topic):: Interiors, Almshouses, Poor persons, and Women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Workhouse, St. James's Parish [graphic]

7. 'Fine yellow sand' upon the floor is good for either rich or poor [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1803]
Call Number:: 647 803C
Collection Title:: Leaf 9v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A sand peddler with a bucket in his hand stands beside his cart in the foreground while a boy sits upon the sand in the cart; in the background the Orphan Hospital
Alternative Title:: Orphan Hospital
Description:: Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):: Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):: Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at Edinburgh,
Subject (Topic):: City & town life, Peddlers, Carts & wagons, and Almshouses
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > 'Fine yellow sand' upon the floor is good for either rich or poor [graphic].

8. The charter house [graphic].

Published / Created:: [17--]
Call Number:: Print20048
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Name):: Charterhouse School (Smithfield, London, England).
Subject (Topic):: Almshouses, Architecture, and Buildings
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The charter house [graphic].

9. Charge to the overseers of the hundred of [blank] in the county of [blank].

Creator:: Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain)
Published / Created:: [nor before 1798]
Call Number:: File 63 798 So678+
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: text
Description:: Docket title., Date based on reference to this text on page 291. See Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, 1811., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row St. James’s, for the Society for the Bettering the Condition of the Poor, and to be had gratis by the Members of the Society; and by others, at one shillling a dozen
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):: Parishes (Local government), Law and legislation, Fraternal organizations, Almshouses, and Poor
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Charge to the overseers of the hundred of [blank] in the county of [blank].