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  • An Indian man wearing many beads, and carrying a begging bowl and an umbrella, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A woman and a child walk past an old man begging in the street. Engraving by C. Warren after T. Thurston.
  • A blind beggar walks past two figures guided by his dog with a begging bowl. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A boy with a monkey perched on his shoulder is begging for alms from an elegant gentlemen. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal.
  • A legless man sitting on a wooden cart, presumably begging for alms, is surrounded by two dogs. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A man and a boy are begging from two well-dressed couples on the steps. Engraving by G.A. Periam after E.H. Corbould.
  • A blind man holding out a begging bowl and supported by a stick is carrying a small child in a basket on his back. Watercolour.
  • 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 man dressed in rags with a wooden leg-stump begging with his outstretched left hand while holding a stick with his right hand. Coloured etching.
  • A man with a wooden leg pours water into the bowl of a begging woman with two children. Coloured aquatint, 1803, after a painter from Thanjavur.
  • 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.
  • Krishna, playing the flute, seated in a tree with the milkmaids' clothes, while they, naked and in water gather around the tree begging for their clothes. Chromolithograph.
  • A man with a begging bowl is on his knees with his hands clasped, a woman with two children by her is sitting on the ground. Etching.
  • A girl feeds a begging dog treats, another girl sits in front, while a woman reads, Crewe Hall, Cheshire. Coloured lithograph by W. Walton after C.J. Richardson.
  • An old man with a blindfold and wearing parts of armour on his arms and legs is holding out a begging bowl. Etching by Christian Wilhelm-Ernst Dietrich.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A man begging for alms at the side of a road is holding out his cap to a traveller on horseback. Engraving by James Peake, 1777, after J. Courtois, il Borgognone.
  • Disabled and paralysed people lying outside a wall of the cemetery Santo Spirito in Rome begging for alms from passers-by. Coloured lithograph by F. Villain after A.J.-B. Thomas, 1823.
  • Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.
  • Britannia and her lion are begging on a bench on the Thames Embankment, impoverished by proposed Liberal reforms; beyond, the Palace of Westminster in ruins. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 28 November 1891.
  • A blind man walks in Covent Garden, begging for money with hat and placard, stops at two ladies, one who gives him money, meanwhile a young fop helps a lady from a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, c. 1802.
  • Seal of St Giles of Solop. it bears the figure of a Hind, by whose milk St Giles was supported in his desert. The squarish figure above may have denoted, but on this conjecture we do not insist; the clack-dish or alms basket with a clapper, which lepers were obliged to employ in begging charity standing "afar off", lest their touch should pollute the benevolent.
  • Messrs. Wm. Hutchinson & Co. beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of ...
  • Messrs. Wm. Hutchinson & Co. beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of ...
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • A veiled woman, kneeling, begs for alms before her swaddled baby. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.