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  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • A wealthy woman visiting the sick. Wood engraving after C. Baugniet.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • A poor Savoyard woman surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III, 1746, after J.B.M. Pierre.
  • A poor Savoyard woman surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III, 1746, after J.B.M. Pierre.
  • A drunkard stands before his poor family and swears by the Holy Bible. Wood-engraving by J. Johnston, c. 1864, after G. Cruikshank.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: Dress the naked. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • A generous physician refusing money for services rendered from a poor family. Mezzotint.
  • A drunken man fights with his family, all ruined through his drinking habit. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • A drunken man at home with his starving and ruined family. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • A rich miser eating humble food. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli, c. 1800.
  • A drunken man fights with his family, all ruined through his drinking habit. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • A rich miser eating humble food. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli, c. 1800.
  • A hopeless drunkard lying on his bed watched by his poor wife and son. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842, after himself.
  • A rich man and his servant hand out food and alms to the poor and hungry. Etching by A. Chataignier and C. Niquet after V.M. Langlois after D. Teniers the younger.
  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: Give drink to the thirsty. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • A rich miser eating humble food. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli, c. 1800.
  • A wealthy ignorant doctor recommending expensive foods and cures to a very poor woman for her sick child. Wood engraving.
  • Poor House Hospital, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England: with floor plan. Photolithograph by W. & A.K. Johnston, 1874.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • An old couple lie in their sick bed receiving alms from a girl with the encouragement of her mother and a nun. Pen and ink drawing after J.B. Greuze.
  • An old couple lie in their sick bed receiving alms from a girl with the encouragement of her mother and a nun. Line engraving by Th.-F. Vi-., 1781, after J.B. Greuze.