Poor-law posters & prints

Sir John Trollope, Bart., M.P., President of the Poor-Law Board Anonymous

Abingdon Workhouse, Oxfordshire, built for the Abingdon Union, 1836 Unknown

Police Tyranny Anonymous

The Inside of a Newly Reformed Workhouse with all Abuses Removed Timothy Teas

Not for Joe! Joseph Swain

Plate 11 from the 'Disparates': Poor Folly, ca. 1816-23 Francisco Goya

The Christening, 1863 Emile Antoine Bayard

Dinner at the Zemstvo, 1872 Grigori Grigorievich Mjasoedov

The Widow's Mite James Jacques Joseph Tissot

The poor of Berlin rummaging in refuse heaps Anonymous

The Alms, c.1660 Gabriel Metsu

The Works of mercy Frans II the Younger Francken

Of the contempt and dispysynge of pouertye German School

St. Louis distributing alms Jacques Stella

Dinner for the homeless, Church Army House, Westminster, London Anonymous

One of Wycliffe's Poor Priests Preaching to the People Anonymous

Flushing the Sewers English School

The Irish Street Seller, c.1840 English School

Distress in the East End of London Charles Joseph Staniland

London Slums English School

London Nightmen English School

Feudal Law. Fom the Heidelberg Sachsenspiegel, 14th century Eike von Repgow

Pity the Poor Garotters! Anonymous

Fleet Prison, London Anonymous

Théâtre-Lyrique Anonymous

Van Dun Almshouses, Caxton Street, London James Findlay

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

Spain: The Holy Week in Seville: The Cardinal Washing Poor Men's Feet 1873 Anonymous

Chetham's Hospital and Library, Manchester Anonymous

A Peasant Woman with Vegetables and Bread Auguste-Xavier Leprince

The poor of Berlin rummaging in refuse heaps, Germany, c1914-c1918 Unknown

Pity The Poor Prisoners? Charles Samuel Keene

Russian peasants Anonymous

Peasant Interior Louis Le Nain

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

Match Vendor Ernst Hader