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Poor children

Images

  • A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.
  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
  • 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.
  • 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 family praying before eating their simple evening meal. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1784, after A. Ostade.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The children of the poor : representations of childhood since the seventeenth century / Hugh Cunningham.

    Cunningham, Hugh. | Date: 1991
    • Ephemera

    Shaftesbury Society (Ragged Union School) ... : season 1922 / Arthur Black, general secretary.

    Black, Arthur. | Date: 1922
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 44066i
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    • Online

    A poor family praying before eating their simple evening meal. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1784, after A. Ostade.

    Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685. | Date: 1 August 1794 | Reference: 17757i
    • Books

    Malnourished children of the rural poor : the web of food, health, education, fertility, and agricultural production / Judith B. Balderston, Alan B. Wilson, Maria E. Freire, Mari S. Simonen of the Berkeley Project on Educatioon and Nutrition ; with forewords by Charles S. Benson, Sheldon Margen.

    | Date: [1981]
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