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  • Christ stands among sick people ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • An old woman wearing a ragged coat leans against the stump of a tree holding a broom in her right hand and a hat in her left hand. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • An old man in ragged clothes and a fur cap with a feather seen from behind walking with two sticks. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • An itinerant poor saleswoman selling hearthstones. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An old itinerant salesman offering the repair of defect umbrellas. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An itinerant salesman with artificial arms selling the bootlaces that hang from the hooks of his hands. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An itinerant salesman selling hot peas from the pot he carries under his right arm. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • An itinerant salesman selling small woollen toys from a wicker baket. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • A beggar dressed in rags limping with the aid of a staff towards a village. Etching possibly after J. Callot.
  • A bearded man walking the streets with his hat under his arm deeply engrossed in reading a book. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • A miser and usurer holding a money-bag is accosted by a poor man on crutches. Woodcut by J. Amman, c. 1568.
  • A wretched man with an approaching depression; represented by encroaching little devils. Coloured lithograph, 183-.
  • Two bearded beggars holding out an upturned hat begging for alms. Etching possibly after J. Callot.
  • National school, Clerkenwell, London. Wood engraving by J.R. Jobbins.
  • Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Wood engraving by H. Linton after T. Beech (?) after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • A blind man with his dog. Etching by Jacques Callot, ca. 1622.
  • A bearded beggar, dressed in rags, holding a staff in his left hand. Etching with engraving possibly after J. Callot.
  • A beggar woman with a gourd. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1629.
  • A bearded beggar dressed in rags holding a staff in his right hand. Etching with engraving possibly after J. Callot.
  • A sick man at home in bed discussing his case with three physicians. Watercolour by T. Müller.
  • Male beggar dressed in rags. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot, ca. 1622.
  • Travelling gypsies resting under a tree outside a village. Etching by Jacques Callot.
  • A poor man suffering from indigestion. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès.
  • Robert Macaire as a doctor selling, at a so-called 'free consultation', bottles of water for twenty francs each and glasses of water for 10 centimes each. Lithograph by H. Daumier, c. 1835.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
  • An old man in tattered clothes leaning on a broom for support. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: receiving day for outpatients. Process print after W. W. Russell.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Lithograph after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • An old man with two crutches is sitting on the steps of a church begging for alms from two women entering the church. Etching by A. Legros.