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Images from the collections

Images about Poor - Services for

4 images from works
  • Queen Adelaide's Dispensary, Bethnal Green. Wood engraving by O. Jewitt after himself [1865].
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
  • An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.

Works from the collections

15 works

    • Books

    How to help cases of distress : a year book of information respecting the statutory and voluntary means of relief.

    | Date: 1945
    • Pictures

    Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: the provision of bread and clothing to the needy. Photograph by Fotografia Lombardi Siena, 18--, of fresco by Domenico di Bartolo, 1441.

    Domenico, di Bartolo, approximately 1400-approximately 1445. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 665105i
    • Books

    Swelling grounds : a history of Hackney Workhouse (1729-1929) / Paul Montair.

    Montair, Paul | Date: [1995]
    • Books

    Poor relief in England, 1350-1600 / Marjorie Keniston McIntosh.

    McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston. | Date: 2012
    • Pictures

    An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.

    Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569. | Date: [1558?] | Reference: 35278i
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