Impoverished posters & prints

Thoughts of Liberia: Emancipation, 1861 Edwin White

A Scene in St. Giles's Francois Pierdon

The Charity of Saint Isabel of Hungary, after Murillo Francisco Augustin y Grande

I think I shall do well to marry now, no.30 from 'Galerie Physionomique' Charles Joseph Travies de Villiers

Senza Quattrini, Teatro Burattini, Firenze, 1887 Cipriano Cei

The Rag Merchant's Home - Coulston Street - Whitechapel Gustave Dore

John Steel, 1803 John Kay

A Court for King Cholera, 1852 English School

Calling for the Ferry, 1871 Hubert Salentin

Rich kids, poor parents Claes Jansz. Visscher II

They understood his lack of money Celestin Francois (after) Nanteuil

Impoverished Irish Farmers Anonymous

At the Pawnshop Christian Ludwig Bokelman

Illustration for the essay 'A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis' by Charles Lamb, 1899 Charles Edmund Brock

Outcasts Sleeping in Sheds in Whitechapel, 1888 English School

A Salvation Army Women's Shelter Charles Paul Renouard

Reverend John Wesley's Study, Orphan House, Newcastle, 1856 English School

Young Hobbinol and Ganderetta, c.1788 Thomas Gainsborough

The Match Girl, 1834 George Whiting Flagg

Little Sleeping Vagabonds English School

Starting Out Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz

The Flower Seller, c.1879 Julian Alden Weir

Remember the Hungry!, poster, 1921 Ivan Simakov

Poverty and Wealth, 1888 William Powell Frith

The ragpickers of Paris Henri Meyer

Peasant Couple Eating, 1621 Georges de la Tour

Old beggarwoman Henri Bonaventure Monnier

Young Girl Sleeping Bernardt Keil or Keyl

Afternoon Pastimes, 1917 Evert Pieters

Morning, or the Benevolent Sportsman, 1792 George Morland

At Romsey Abbey, 1899 Robert Bateman

Travellers greeted by peasants in Italy Jean Baptiste Mallet

The Happy Family Eugenio Zampighi

The Alms, c.1660 Gabriel Metsu

Study for 'Deserted - a Foundling' Frank Holl

A young Ben arrives in Philadelphia, poor and hungry, with bread under his arm School American