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  • A man with an artificial arm selling live haddock from a basket he suspends from the hook on his left shoulder. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Two pilgrims. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot, ca. 1622.
  • A bearded beggar dressed in rags holding a hat and a staff in his right hand. Etching by J. Callot.
  • Travelling gypsies. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot.
  • The destitute wait for welfare assistance; an old man is told by an official that he will have to come back in eight days. Colour reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal, 1822.
  • Two itinerant salesmen selling rattles and rattle boxes. Etching by J.T. Smith, ca. 1815.
  • People with impaired arms and legs. Process prints.
  • A ragged looking man is standing in a prison courtyard with a piece of rope in his hand; representing scorn of material wealth by a man who has none. Coloured lithograph.
  • A beggar wearing a placard around his neck checks the contents of his collecting tin while a beggar with two amputated feet moves past with the aid of two crutches and stumps. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • 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.
  • Two performing street entertainers carrying bells and performing on the street. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • 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.
  • A poor woman in childbirth being watched by her husband. Engraving by J.-J. Frilley, 1827, after Ary Scheffer.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: receiving day for outpatients. Process print after W. W. Russell.
  • Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching by T. Worlidge, 1758, after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • 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.
  • A poor painter seated at a canvas contemplates suicide. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • 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 young man in ragged clothes leaning against the stump of a tree in the moonlight smiling benignly at his sleeping dog on the ground. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Tiles found in the new wards for homeless poor, Whitechapel, 1866. Watercolour painting.
  • An itinerant salesman selling miniature windmills from a wicker basket before him. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Beggar with a wooden leg. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot, ca. 1622.
  • An itinerant salesman selling reproductions of antique and modern sculptures from a timber board he balances on his head. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • A politician out canvassing curses himself for climbing six floors to the room of an impoverished mother and her young offspring, none of whom are electorally valuable. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • An old woman in ragged clothes carrying a huge load on her back. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • Five legless men moving with the aid of crutches in a yard. Etching by F.D. Hillemacher after P. Bruegel, 1871.
  • A beggar woman with a gourd. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1629.
  • A man in ragged clothes walking with two crutches and a wooden leg. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • A ragged beggar carrying a banner reading "Capitano de baroni" leads a procession of lame people and beggars out of a village. Etching after J. Callot.