"A grotesquely ugly old maid, wearing pattens, walks preceded by a small poodle, clipped in an exaggeration of the French manner, and followed by a black foot-boy in livery, who holds on a skewer a lump of 'Cat's Meat'. He carries an umbrella under hi...
Description:
Title below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Beggars, Dogs, Servants, and Single women
Volume 2, page 90. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A friar standing in a landscape, a walking stick in his left hand and his hat down by his side in his right, a sack slung over his shoulder; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published March 8th, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
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...
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.
"Portrait of Bampfylde Moore Carew, half-length, standing, directed towards right, facing and looking towards front, with chin-length hair, wearing a tattered coat and a neckerchief, holding a little dog in his right arm, the elbow resting on a table,...
"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...
Charles Fox, with a blindfold signed, "East India Bill," is lead by a small dog with Lord North's face toward a building that may be a debtor's prison. In his left hand, he holds a long spiked staff topped with crown
Alternative Title:
King of the beggars
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 22d March 1784 by Wm. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
East India Company, Politics and government, Beggars, and Dogs
