The poor man's friend posters & prints

The Poor, The Poor Man's Friend Thomas Faed

Sancta Nicotina Consolatrix. The Poor Man's Friend George du Maurier

Nicholas Jennings in the guise both of a cripple and a gang leader English School

A Scene in St. Giles's Francois Pierdon

Saint Martin Sharing his Coat with a Beggar, c.1737 Louis Galloche

Seated Beggar Jacques Callot

A Fellow-Feeling Georgina Bowers

Mr Bumble degraded in the eyes of the paupers George Cruikshank

The Blind Beggar and his Grand-Daughter John Russell

Old Pye Street, Westminster, 1849 English School

Old beggarwoman Henri Bonaventure Monnier

Christian assistance to the poor Pieter Nolpe

Four Beggars Anonymous

Poverty and Wealth, 1888 William Powell Frith

Despair, 1881 Frank Holl

Spanish Mendicants, 1896 Francis Luis Mora

Homeless, 1885 Marianne Stokes

A Crétin of Aosta, c.1870 Edward Whymper

The Crumbs from the Rich Man's Table: Distributing the Remains of the Feast to the Poor in the Guildhall the... Samuel Begg

poverty Christoph Weigel

The Poor Fisherman, 1881 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

When life is hard it's better to be young, 1911 Lionel Percy Smythe

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

Beggars and a Monkey, 1893 Augustus Edward Mulready

In Search of Medicine, 1884 Vladimir Egorovic Makovsky

The Distressed Poet, 1866 Thomas Frank Heaphy

The Mouthful of Bread, study for 'Charity', 1892-1908 Fernand Pelez

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

The London Beggar, Cries of London, c.1688 Anonymous Anonymous

The Porridge William Bouguereau

The Toilet Adriaen Jansz. van Ostade

A Court for King Cholera, 1852 English School

Bluegase-field Gustave (after) Dore

Dinner at the Zemstvo, 1872 Grigori Grigorievich Mjasoedov

The Dole Walter Bonner Gash

Detail from the Massacre of the Servants and Herdsmen of Job, 1367 also Manfredi de Battilori Bartolo di Fredi