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  • Hyder Beg Khan wearing a fur cap and a green attire. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two young children in ragged clothing learning to beg for money. Engraving by H. Bourne after R. Rothwell.
  • The bottle, by George Cruikshank; 'Unable to obtain employment, they are driven by poverty into the street to beg'
  • Seneca preparing his own death: he begs his wife to temper her grief. Etching by J.F.P. Peyron, ca. 1773.
  • A veiled woman, kneeling, begs a young man for alms; her three sick children at her feet. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • A drunken man begs in the street with his family, all ruined through his drinking habit. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • Krishna sitting in a tree with all the gopis clothes while they naked in the water, beg for their garments. Chromolithograph after Ravi Varma.
  • A dog on a laboratory bench sits up and begs the prospective vivisector for mercy. Engraving by C.J. Tomkins, 1883, after a painting by J. McClure Hamilton.
  • A dog on a laboratory bench sits up and begs the prospective vivisector for mercy. Engraving by C.J. Tomkins, 1883, after a painting by J. McClure Hamilton.
  • The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right) two women (one with a baby) beg and cower in a snowy street. Transfer lithograph, 1868.
  • A black man in ragged clothes moving with the aid of crutches holds out his hat to beg for alms while wearing a miniature ship on his head. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • An old black man in ragged clothes holding a broom in his left hand and holding his hat in his right hand as if to beg for alms. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Hull, 17th November, 1866 : Dear gentlemen, in answer to your advertisement, I beg to offer myself as a candidate for the office of Veterinary Surgeon to your honourable Board ... / T.B. Wright.
  • Hull, 17th November, 1866 : Dear gentlemen, in answer to your advertisement, I beg to offer myself as a candidate for the office of Veterinary Surgeon to your honourable Board ... / T.B. Wright.
  • Hermaphroditus in the pool of the spring-nymph Salmacis, who begged the gods that they be joined for all time; the gods acceded and they became one, male and female. Engraving by Colinet after F. Albani.
  • Private : to the trad only : we beg to call your attention to our world-renowned Blood, Cough and Physic Balls, and solicit your orders for same if you have not already tested their merits.
  • Easter, 1899 : F. Monk begs to announce that he is providing for Easter consumption several very choice consignments of English lamb direct from the farms at Wallingford, Chichester and Bridewater / F. Monk, London Road, Kingston-on-Thames.
  • Easter, 1899 : F. Monk begs to announce that he is providing for Easter consumption several very choice consignments of English lamb direct from the farms at Wallingford, Chichester and Bridewater / F. Monk, London Road, Kingston-on-Thames.
  • Easter, 1899 : F. Monk begs to announce that he is providing for Easter consumption several very choice consignments of English lamb direct from the farms at Wallingford, Chichester and Bridewater / F. Monk, London Road, Kingston-on-Thames.
  • An embassy of the Nawab of Oudh (Awadh), led by his minister Haider Beg Khan, passing Patna on its way to Lord Cornwallis, the new Governor-General of India, in Calcutta in 1786. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1800, after J. Zoffany, 1796.
  • Surrey Dispensary for the Relief of the Poor : Union Street, of 178... : having been received as a patient under the care of... by your recommendation, and discharged this day... I beg leave to return my most humble and hearty thanks for the same.
  • Surrey Dispensary for the Relief of the Poor : Union Street, of 178... : having been received as a patient under the care of... by your recommendation, and discharged this day... I beg leave to return my most humble and hearty thanks for the same.
  • An episode in La bergère des Alpes by Jean-François Marmontel: Fonrose disguised as a shepherd begs forgiveness from his father M. de Fonrose, while the seated goatherd Adelaide de Sevile is embraced by Madame de Fonrose. Etching by R. Delaunay, 1786, after Etienne Aubry.
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • Unequalled novelty from Westminster Hall, London, will arrive in this town on the of this month : The public of this town and its vicinity are most respectfully informed that a wonderful display of the works of nature will be exhibited here for a short time only. Mr. J. Chipperfield begs to inform the public that he has entered into an expensive engagement with Mr. Tipney the Skeleton Man Alive, born in the year 1841, and weighs only forty-nine pounds!.
  • Epochae celebriores, astronomis, historicis, chronologis, Chataiorvm, Syro-Graecorvm, Arabvm, Persarvm, Chorasmiorvm, usitatae: ex traditione Ulug Beigi; indiae citra extráque gangem principis / eas primus publicavit, recensuit, et commentariis illustravit Johannes Gravius.
  • A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.
  • A beggar dressed in rags limping with the aid of a staff towards a village. Etching possibly after J. Callot.
  • A bearded beggar, dressed in rags, holding a staff in his left hand. Etching with engraving possibly after J. Callot.