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  • An itinerant salesman in top hat and ragged clothes selling sweets or pies from a basket under his arm. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • A hawker with a hawker's tray full of rodents. Etching by Jan van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • A family is discovered dead from starvation after waiting for welfare assistance. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
  • Two boys selling matches. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • A beggar woman with three children. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot, ca. 1622.
  • A lame man sitting on the ground with his injured leg in a sling begging for alms. Etching with woodcut and engraving by F.Bloemaert after A. Bloemaert.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A bearded one-armed beggar in ragged clothes wearing a large rosary with a crucifix. Etching with engraving possibly after J. Callot.
  • A legless man sitting on a wooden cart, presumably begging for alms, is surrounded by two dogs. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • 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.
  • Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching by T. Worlidge, 1758, after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal, 1822.
  • A blind old man holding out his hat begging for alms is supported by a boy in tattered clothes. Etching by J.T.Smith, 1816.
  • A bearded beggar in ragged clothes. Etching with engraving possibly after J. Callot.
  • The Metropolitan Benefit Societies' Asylum, Dalston, London. Wood engraving, c. 1850.
  • An itinerant salesman selling the doormats that are strapped to his chest. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • One-eyed beggar woman. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot, ca. 1622.
  • A bearded one-armed beggar in ragged clothes wearing a large rosary with a crucifix. Etching with engraving possibly after J. Callot.
  • An itinerant salesman pushing the cart from which he sells wood logs. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • A lady waiting for the repair of her pan at a tinker's stall. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • A sick man at home in bed discussing his case with three physicians. Watercolour by T. Müller.
  • An English gentleman stands at the open gates of his mansion handing out food to the poor who are gathered around. Etching by R. Seymour.
  • A bearded beggar dressed in a ragged cloak, holding a drinking vessel and a staff. Etching with engraving, possibly after J. Callot.
  • An itinerant salesman in ragged clothes selling toasting forks, files, skewers and other implements. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • 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.
  • A man is shown from behind reading a sandwich board attached to the back of the man in front of him, advertising a lottery. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An old beggar in very tattered old clothes is sitting on a staircase with his sleeping dog curled up at his feet. Etching by J.T.Smith, 1816.
  • A woman dressed in rags, possibly a beggar, standing barefoot on the ground, with her skirt hitched up, holding a staff and a drinking vessel. Etching possibly after J. Callot.
  • A man on a bench tells a policeman that his local hospital has no room for him, while other hospitals cannot help him because he is not local. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.