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  • A soldier bends down to put some money into the hand of an old lady who is sitting on the side of the road. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1829.
  • Damon's advice to Chloe, or, Darby and Joan.
  • Damon's advice to Chloe, or, Darby and Joan.
  • An old man in ragged clothes and a fur cap with a feather seen from behind walking with two sticks. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • A man in ragged clothes with a walking stick. Etching by F. Vivares, 17--, after Rembrandt, 1639.
  • An old man with his arms around a young woman. Stipple engraving after Thomas Rowlandson.
  • Frontispiece to "Etchings of remarkable beggars itinerant traders and other persons of notoriety in London and its environs by John Thomas Smith". Coloured etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • An old man with his arms around a young woman. Stipple engraving after Thomas Rowlandson.
  • An old man sitting cross-legged on the ground next to his crutches. Etching by C. Jacque.
  • A beggar woman selling wares from a basket in her right hand. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1815.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: three monks at the meal table. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-18711.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: three monks at the meal table. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-18711.
  • An old itinerant salesman offering the repair of defect umbrellas. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • 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.
  • An old woman with a flower; representing the sense of smell. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • A nursemaid (?) holding a senile man in her lap and feeding him with "Maraliment", a proprietary seaweed soup. Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, 1920.
  • Eating through the years : healthy eating in retirement / Heinz.
  • Winter: an old man warming his hands before a brazier. Wax sculpture.
  • Eating through the years : healthy eating in retirement / Heinz.
  • A hawker with a hawker's tray full of rodents. Etching by Jan van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • Eating through the years : healthy eating in retirement / Heinz.
  • Eating through the years : healthy eating in retirement / Heinz.
  • An old woman in ragged clothes carrying a huge load on her back. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • A prostitute leading an old man into the bedroom and taking money from him; implying that her services will act like a tonic and preserve his state of health. Coloured etching, 18--, after T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An old woman wearing spectacles; representing the sense of sight. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • A man with one foot moves with crutches accompanied by a little girl wearing a hat and her arm in a sling. Engraving with etching by P. Quast.
  • An old woman with a plate of vegetables; representing the sense of taste. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • Vaccination against smallpox: a young Turkmen being vaccinated, contrasted with an elderly Turkmen who is blinded and disfigured by smallpox. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • A man in Mexico is carrying a blind old man in a chair on his back in order to attract alms. Coloured lithograph by C. Linati, 1828.
  • A woman playing the barrel-organ; representing the sense of hearing. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.