Items matching poverty (results page 1)

Gardener’s BoyPictureseque Egypt Vol II (1878)

A boy, perhaps thirteen years old, has a large flower on his head and carries a garland; he is selling flowers from a basket.

Keywords: people, children, poverty, flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-28

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229.—Residence of a Saxon Nobleman.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There’s a lot going on in this Anglo-Saxon nobleman’s house. The nobleman seems to have an open book upside-down on his lap and is handing something, possibly bread, to one of the beggars at his door, [...]

Keywords: saxon england, people, poverty, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2012-06-16

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The CasualsMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

The oil painting on which this engraving was based was exhibted under the title, Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward, at the Royal Academy in 1874; it was made to illustrate a scene from Dickens [...]

Keywords: poverty, poor, victorian costumes, bare feet, men, women, people, children, street scenes, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2021-03-15

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Orange Court – Drury LaneLondon (1872)

People sit in the streets in a narrow alley; a barefoot girl carries a child; washing hangs out to dry. On our way to the City on the tide of Labor we light upon places in which the day is never aired [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, street scenes, bare feet, children, greyscale

Places shown: Drury Lane; London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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The GleanersMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

(By Fred Morgan) “Mr. Fred. Morgan is as sunny as usual in his “Gleaners” (p. 119) Gleaning means going into fields after the harvest and finding left-overs missed by the harvesters. When I was a chil [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, fields, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2010-04-20

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The Old Farm Gate.The Table Book of Art (1880)

This steel engraving is signed by William Collins (artist) and Dick (engraver). It’s possible this is Archibald Dick, but he died some fifteen years before this book was produced. William Collins was [...]

Keywords: children, people, bare feet, urchins, poverty, rural scenes, gates, farms, forests, trees, boys, girls, animals, dogs, bucolic scenes, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2018-11-16

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Two-wheeled plough. (From Harleian MS. No. 4374)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The two-wheeled plough here is pulled by a pair of oxen and has one man behind. Harleian MS. 4374 is Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, by Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesd [...]

Keywords: ploughs, farming, agriculture, farming, farm machinery, people, poverty, work, rural, oxen, spring, wheels, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-26

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Street Music—1789.London (Volume I) (1841)

Dayes, who published a collection of street views about 1789, has given us the group which concludes our paper. Here we have the organ, the triangle, the tambourine, and the hurdy-gurdy,—each strivi [...]

Keywords: musicians, street scenes, poverty, busking, people, instruments, animals, children, dogs, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-12-23

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153.—Captain of the Scoundrels.Callot’s Etchings (1635)

The Capitano de Baroni, or captain of the robber-barons, one might say. He is the chief beggar, dressed in rags, begging-bowl at his side, knapsack over one shoulder, one arm held in a sling (probabl [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, beggars, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-31

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154.—Beggar with Hurdygurdy.Callot’s Etchings (1635)

This beggar is an older man; he has a ragged beard like mine, a tattered hat and cloak, and boots; he carries his musical instrument, the ornate hurdy-gurdy, on a strap over his shoulder. The hurdy-gu [...]

Keywords: people, music, musical instruments, poverty, beggars, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-04-04

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Beggar Woman with Rosary.Callot’s Etchings (1635)

A hunched-over woman leans on a stick; a cross on a string of beads (a rosary necklace) dangles from her hands. She wears a dress tided at the waist, sturdy boots, and a head-scarf.

Keywords: people, poverty, beggars, women, religion, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-10-27

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160.—Begger Women with Cup and Spoon.Callot’s Etchings (1635)

Two women in tattered clothing, one barefoot, onr using a cane to walk, one with a hat and the othe with a hood and a ruff around her neck.

Keywords: people, poverty, beggars, women, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-03-31

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Dudley Street – Seven DialsLondon (1872)

Children play in this crowded street; they are dressed in rags and mostly barefoot. The peculiar character of these streets, and the close resemblance each one bears to its neighbour, by no means tend [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, streets, children, bare feet, houses, misery, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2010-07-31

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2056.—Old Shoes for some Brooms!Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man is standing with half a dozen straw brooms on his back, tied to a stick he holds in his left hand. He wears a broad-brimmed hat and simple shoes; his coat is in holes, as is his shirt or tunic u [...]

Keywords: street sellers, people, poverty, underworld, men, brooms, barter, london, sixteenth-century costumes, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-03-23

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Lemonade VendorLondon (1872)

A man with long straggly hair wearing a top hat and an old coat is selling lemonade from a bucket with wooden cups tied to it. “The reader will perceive, in the scenes which have caught the attention [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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The Butcher, Newport Market AlleyLondon (1872)

A bearded butcher chops meat, seemingly on a tree-stump, surrounded by his customers. “What! you have no district markets in London! People buy their meat and vegetables in these horrible little shops [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, beards, shopkeepers, food, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-10-27

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Trop tard!La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A young man, barefoot and dressed in rags, is half-kneeling, his head i his hands, at a bench in front of an enclosed bed, on which sleeps, or perhaps is dead, an old man. A priest holding a book loo [...]

Keywords: death, people, bare feet, poverty, priests, men, interiors, beds, furniture, grief, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-10-31

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Gavroche (Les Misérables)Victor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

The boy “Gavroche” from the book Les Misérables. A hundred years later the book was made into a musical that was very successful, of coure, and later a film, but at this time it was a book. Gavroche w [...]

Keywords: people, boys, street scenes, poverty, bare feet, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2015-01-26

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