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1. Ben Holbrook, a walking stationer [art original]
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1783]
- Call Number:
- Drawings N736 no. 11 Box D141
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Benjamin Holbrook, shown full-length in profile, walking to the left, holding with a long white staff in his right hand, clutching two memorandum books in his left hand, heading towards Fleet Market, with the west front of St. Paul’s Cathedral visible in the background. His eyes being closed and the presence of the staff indicate his blindness, and the patched elbow of his three-quarter-length coat his poverty
- Description:
- Title from ink inscription in lower left portion of image., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower right corner., Numbered "25" in top center., For the related print, entitled "Ben Holbrook, the walking stationer" and published 16 July 1783 by William Wells, see Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 542, no. 1., and Mounted with narrow paper mount.
- Subject (Name):
- Holbrook, Benjamin, active 1783, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Peddlers, Blind persons, Staffs (Sticks), and Stationery
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ben Holbrook, a walking stationer [art original]
2. Gonococcie, fléau social [graphic]
- Creator:
- Maurus, E., artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1940-1950]
- Call Number:
- Poster0030
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Gonorrhea, social scourge
- Description:
- Title and place of publication from item., Text: Vous devez connaitre les moyens d'éviter les redoutables conséquences de la gonococcie fléau social ; la stérilité, les rhumatismes, les cécité ; Trop de berceaux vides! ; Demandes la liste des centres de prophylazie antivénérienne et des dispensaires ..., Translated title supplied by curator., Date derived from poster style., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- Ministère de la Santé Publique and Imp. J.E. Goossens
- Subject (Topic):
- Gonorrhea, Infertility, Female, Rheumatism, Blindness, Sick persons, People with disabilities, Blind persons, Children, and Cribs (Children's beds).
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Gonococcie, fléau social [graphic]
3. Here age, alas! both blind and poor, cries, 'basses good from door to door [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1803]
- Call Number:
- 647 803C
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 17r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A blind man stands in the foreground, in profile to the left, holding a cane in his left hand. The Chapel of Ease of St. Cuthbert's, in Crosscauseway, is seen in the background
- Alternative Title:
- Chapel of Ease, Cross Causeway
- 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 (Topic):
- City & town life, Peddlers, Blind persons, Poor persons, Staffs (Sticks), and Churches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Here age, alas! both blind and poor, cries, 'basses good from door to door [graphic].
4. London's information and advice service for disabled people on arts & entertainment [graphic]
- Creator:
- Della Porta, Caroline, artist
- Published / Created:
- [after 1981]
- Call Number:
- Poster0394
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- London's information and advice service for disabled people on arts and entertainment
- Description:
- Title and publisher from item., Date derived from founding of Artsline., Text in lower margin: Charity Reg. No. 287 988 ; Design: Spark Ceresa ; Illustration: Caroline Della Porta ; Sponsored by BT., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- Artsline
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- People with disabilities and the arts, People with disabilities and the performing arts, People with disabilities, Wheelchairs, Children, Theaters, Guide dogs, and Blind persons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > London's information and advice service for disabled people on arts & entertainment [graphic]
5. The Westminster mendicant [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [11 May 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.05.11.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A blind beggar, Sir Cecil Wray, is led (right to left) by his dog, round whose neck hangs a 'Subscription Box'. He supports himself by a long staff; in his left hand is the dog's cord, and under his left arm is a larger box, inscribed 'Subscription Scrutiny Box'. He sings: "Pity the Weak, and Needy pray, Oh pity me, I've lost the day." Behind the dog is a placard inscribed: "See here the Dog, of all his kind, The fittest for a Beggar blind, The Beast can bark or grunt as Hog. His name is Churchill - Oh the Dog!"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and month of publication from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below title: Ye Christians charitable, good and civil, pray something give to this poor wandering devil ..., Plate from: The history of the Westminster election., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Covent Garden Church -- Allusion to scrutiny -- Allusion to John Churchill of Westminster., and Mounted to 32 x 25 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publd. 11th [May] 1784 by H. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Parliament and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784, Politics and government, Blind persons, Staffs (Sticks), and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Westminster mendicant [graphic].
6. The Westminster mendicant [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [11 May 1784] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 23. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A blind beggar, Sir Cecil Wray, is led (right to left) by his dog, round whose neck hangs a 'Subscription Box'. He supports himself by a long staff; in his left hand is the dog's cord, and under his left arm is a larger box, inscribed 'Subscription Scrutiny Box'. He sings: "Pity the Weak, and Needy pray, Oh pity me, I've lost the day." Behind the dog is a placard inscribed: "See here the Dog, of all his kind, The fittest for a Beggar blind, The Beast can bark or grunt as Hog. His name is Churchill - Oh the Dog!"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6578 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Month of publication for original issue of plate from the British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below title: Ye Christians charitable, good and civil, pray something give to this poor wandering devil ..., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 137-8., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: Westminster Election, 1784 -- Scrutiny of the Westminster Election -- Chruches: St. Paul's, Covent Garden -- Blind beggar -- Boxes: 'Poor box' -- Churchill, John, fl. 1784-1788 -- Blind beggar's dog -- Blind men., and On leaf 23 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Publd. 11th [May] 1784 by H. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805 and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784, Politics and government, Beggars, Blind persons, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Westminster mendicant [graphic].
7. The blind beggar and his daughter of Bethnal Green [graphic]
- Creator:
- Chapman, J. (John), active 1792-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 August 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 99. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The beggar kneeling to left, holding a stick, his hat on the ground in front of him, at right a dog jumping up at a woman; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "First state before letters of title filled in"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1888,0716.240., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: A blind beggar that had long lost his sight, he had a fair daughter of beauty most bright, and many a gallant brave suitor had she, for none was so comely as pretty Bessey ..., Illustration to the anonymous ballad 'The blind beggar of Bethnal Green'., and Mounted on page 99 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Augt. 20, 1790, by T. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Beggars, Blind persons, Daughters, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The blind beggar and his daughter of Bethnal Green [graphic]
8. The pig pye man [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800?]
- Call Number:
- 800.00.00.149
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Pig pie man
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Vendors: pig pie vendor.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Blind persons and Food vendors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The pig pye man [graphic].
9. The walking stationer memorandum books a penny apiece of the poor blind, God bless you pity the blind = Le libraire embulant : ayer pitié du pauvre aveugle, achettez ses petits livrét's et que bon Dieu vous benisse / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1760]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 Sa5 760
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 6. Twelve London cries, done from the life.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An old blind man being guided to right by a young boy, holding a basket full of books, while the boy looks towards the viewer."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Libraire embulant : ayer pitié du pauvre aveugle ...
- Description:
- Titles in English and French etched below image., Signed and dated by the printmaker in lower right corner of image., Publisher from first plate in series., Sixth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., and Plate numbered "6" beneath lower right corner of image.
- Publisher:
- F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookselling, Street vendors, Blind persons, and Baskets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The walking stationer memorandum books a penny apiece of the poor blind, God bless you pity the blind = Le libraire embulant : ayer pitié du pauvre aveugle, achettez ses petits livrét's et que bon Dieu vous benisse / [graphic]
