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  • A female beggar sitting on a stool with a cat on her lap and another cat curled up under the stool. Etching possibly after J. Callot.
  • The Blessed Henri Joyeuse as a knight of St John giving alms to a lame beggar. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 17th (?) century.
  • A bearded beggar sitting on a stone eats from a bowl while he holds his staff in his right hand. Etching with engraving possibly after J. Callot.
  • 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.
  • An old beggar with a wooden leg moves with the aid of two crutches and holds his hat in his left hand. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin to unlicensed premises. Engraving, 1751.
  • Johann Theodor August Berend. Lithograph by C. Wild after C.J. Begas.
  • 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.
  • An episode in The beggar's opera: the highwayman Macheath in prison, two young women are kneeling in front of two men and begging for his release. Etching after W. Hogarth.
  • Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. Lithograph by C. Wildt after C. Begas, 1840.
  • Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. Line engraving by P. Wurster after C. Begas, 1840.
  • Two women tending a child in a messy domestic interior. Aquatint after C. Bega, 1654.
  • Two women tending a child in a messy domestic interior. Aquatint after C. Bega, 1654.
  • Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. Stipple engraving by J. J. Hinchliff after C. Begas, 1840.
  • Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. Stipple engraving by D. J. Pound, 1859, after C. Begas, 1840.
  • A beggar is standing outside the door of a house, two women on the doorstep are putting money into his outstretched cap. Stipple engraving, 1789, by J.M. Delattre after F. Wheatley after L. Sterne.
  • The Beggar's opera: on trial for robbery, Captain Macheath stands in shackles in Newgate prison, while two of his lovers (Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit) plead for his life. Engraving by W. Blake after W. Hogarth, 1st July 1790.
  • A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.
  • Hong Kong: a mendicant priest. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Hong Kong: a mendicant priest. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • An old man in tattered clothes leaning on a broom for support. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A woman wearing a ruff carrying a small child in her arms. Engraving with etching.
  • A woman and a child walk past an old man begging in the street. Engraving by C. Warren after T. Thurston.
  • Two young children in ragged clothing learning to beg for money. Engraving by H. Bourne after R. Rothwell.
  • An Indian mendicant man and his wife, of the "Bynagy" caste. Gouache painting.
  • 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 woman in ragged clothing. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • A boy with a monkey perched on his shoulder is begging for alms from an elegant gentlemen. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal.
  • 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.
  • Two pilgrims. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot, ca. 1622.