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A man with leprosy begging outside a mosque. Wood engraving by A. Léveillé after J.L. Gérome.
Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904.Reference: 5424i- Pictures
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Chinese prisoners with their arms outstretched begging for money from an English visitor. Wood engraving by G. Dalziel, 1894.
Date: [1894]Reference: 37736i- Digital Images
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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.
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A beggar dressed in ragged clothes walks on crutches begging for scraps. Coloured lithograph by E. Hull, 1825.
Date: March 1825Reference: 664653i- Pictures
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A Hindu ascetic man (sadhu) with beads around his neck is carrying a begging jar and prayer beads. Watercolour.
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A bearded lame man walking with the aid of two crutches begging for alms with his hat. Engraving with etching.
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A large crowd standing and kneeling at a well, with injured and disabled figures begging and being attended to. Watercolour.
Reference: 33600i- Pictures
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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.
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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.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 535787iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
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A woman and a child walk past an old man begging in the street. Engraving by C. Warren after T. Thurston.
Thurston, John, 1774-1822.Date: 1817Reference: 31947i- Pictures
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A blind beggar walks past two figures guided by his dog with a begging bowl. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 30 April 1816Reference: 16453i- Pictures
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A legless man sitting on a wooden cart, presumably begging for alms, is surrounded by two dogs. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 4 June 1816Reference: 44035i- Books
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Esq; S---ys's budget open'd; or, drink and be d'd a new ballad, to the tune of, A begging we will go.
Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759.Date: 1743- Books
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The complaint of the poor, being deprived of their former way of living: by the uncharitable laws, lately made against begging. The first cry.
Date: 1711- Pictures
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A man and a boy are begging from two well-dressed couples on the steps. Engraving by G.A. Periam after E.H. Corbould.
Corbould, Edward Henry, 1815-1905.Date: 1843Reference: 31991i- Books
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The church-Scuffle: or, news from St. Andrew's. A ballad. To the tune of A begging we will go, &c. Written by Mr. Joseph Gay.
Breval, John, 1680?-1738.Date: [1719]- Archives and manuscripts
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Letter from Lord George Beresford to Sir James McGrigor begging a favour (for Mr. Meade) and reporting on his own and Lord Beresford's health
Date: 1826Reference: RAMC/580Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Pictures
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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.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 28 May 1816Reference: 44033i- Pictures
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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.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 16333i- Pictures
Actors in role: a nun with a begging bowl approached by a girl who holds a branch of red maple. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1860.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.Date: Month 8, 1860Reference: 36051i- Books
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Unto His Grace Her Majesty's High Commissioner and the Right Honourable Estates of Parliament. The petition of the begging and wanting poor in the nation. ...
Date: 1706]- Pictures
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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.
Reference: 32206i- Pictures
A blind beggar in 1470 carrying a small child in a basket on his back as he passes through a mediaeval town. Watercolour, 1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 35075i- Pictures
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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.
Reference: 32208i- Pictures
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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.
Bloemaert, Abraham, 1564-1651.Reference: 43848i