Beggar Collection (page 2)

Street sweeper 1863
Young barefoot boy sweeping the streets for some money. Date: 1863

CIRCA 1480 BEGGAR
A beggar and her bowl. Date: circa 1480

Strolling beggars in China knocking their heads together and on a stone in order to extort alms. Date: 1737

Strolling beggars in China with burning coals
Strolling beggars in China laying burning coals on their heads and using other austerities in order to extort alms. Date: 1752

A woman beggar sits in a church doorway, Cadiz, Spain
A woman beggar sits with her hand out in a church doorway as a man in a white suit and hat walks by in the street. Cadiz, Spain. He is carrying a basket. The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Fakeer - Religious Beggar - at Pune (Poona) India
Fakeer - Religious Beggar with an Ox - at Pune (Poona) India Date: circa 1905

Beggar in rags, India, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Beggar boys playing dice, 1675, by Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1618-1682). Spanish painter. Beggar boys playing dice, 1675. Detail. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Tetouan - Street Beggar
" One can admire the stubborn insistence of the Maghreb" - a pleading Tetouan street beggar holding out his bowl and asking for alms. Date: 1930s

Barefoot Girl / Bread 1905
A generous girl gives a poor street girl some bread outside a bakers shop

Beggar, Japan, 1870s. Date: 1870s

St. Martin of Braga (520-589) sharing his cloak with a begga
Saint Martin of Braga (520-580). Archbishop of Bracara Augusta i Gallaecia (now Braga, Portugal). St. Martin sharing his cloak with a beggar. Engraving by Cibera. Ano Cristiano. 1853. Colored

Odysseus returns home. Roman Fresco
Odysseus disguised as a beggar returns home. Episode of the Odyssey. Roman Fresco. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy

Bamfylde Moore Carew
BAMFYLDE MOORE CAREW King of the gypsies and a beggar Date: 1693 - 1770

Armenian monks, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
Armenian monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Date: 1920s

Beggar in ragged clothes, China
A beggar in ragged clothes, China. Date: circa 1890

Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be blind and wet
Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be a blind beggar singing for your supper/lodging in the rain... Date: circa 1904

Poor Macedonian Beggar Woman and her dog
Poor Macedonian Beggar Woman sitting on the pavement with her dog beside her. Date: circa 1920s

Russia - Wandering Russian Mystic begging for alms Date: 1902

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Beggar Children Date: circa 1910s

The Beggars Opera, piano music cover
Cover design on a book of piano music for The Beggars Opera, by John Gay, first performed in 1728. A plump man of the 18th century is depicted, taking a bow at the theatre footlights

Old man at Ram Raja Temple, Orchha, India
An old man outside the Ram Raja Temple, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Dedicated to Lord Ram or Rama, the temple was built in the 16th century in the centre of the city of Orchha

The Fairys Dilemma by W. S. Gilbert. First produced at the Garrick Theatre, on 3rd May 1904. The main characters are shown as themselves

A begging musician in Suez, Egypt
A begging street musician holding his traditional plucking instrument in Suez, Egypt Date: circa 1910

Cartoon, Monsieur Jacobi and Alexander Henderson
Cartoon, Monsieur Jacobi, theatre director (in the background) -- I had engaged to give those people a taste of The Beggar Student, and now there is Alexander Henderson on the same job

Snap Playing Cards - Beggarman - Tired Tim. circa 1930s

Morocco - Fez - Mosque and Mausoleum of Mawlana Ahmad ibn Mohammed Tijani al-Hassani al-Magribi (1785-1815) - founder of the Sufi Tijaniyya Tariqa. Date: circa 1930

The Rich Man and the Poor Lazarus, 1625, by Hendrick ter Bru
Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588-1629). Dutch painter. The Rich Man and the Poor Lazarus, 1625. Centraal Museum. Utrecht. Netherlands

Tinker, Tailor playing card - Beggarman, Tired Tim. 20th century

Basil Cochrane Et Al
BASIL COCHRANE, Commissioner of the Customs at Edinburgh, with his colleague James Edgar, in discussion with a picturesque beggar. Date: CIRCA 1790

Nose Flute of Keiling
John Keiling, known as Blind Jack, attracts charity in the streets of London by playing the flageolet with his nose, though this distorts his face, Date: early 18th century

Gay Beggars Benefit
Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Lucy and Polly in Macheaths prison cell: a Covent Garden performance for the benefit of Mr Walker

John Gay Myles
JOHN GAY English poet, playwright and theatre manager, famous for The Beggars Opera Date: 1685 - 1732

Samuel Horsey - beggar 1803
Samuel Horsey, a beggar, requented around Charing Cross, London. Date: 1803

Saint Elisabeth, Princess of Hungary (1207-1231), wife of Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia. She spent vast sums of money improving the conditions of the poor, and died at the age of 24

Sealyham terrier sitting up and begging
A Sealyham terrier sitting up and begging -- Slickson the Champion Beggar. Date: 1930

Illustration, King Thrushbeard -- The Beggar took the Princess by the hand, and led her away with him on foot. Date: 1909

Costumes of China: rice-pounder, beggar and puppeteer.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Jolly Beggar apple variety, Malus domestica.. Drawn by Walter Hood Fitch, chromolithographed by G. Severeyns, Brussels, from The Florist and Pomologist Robert Hogg, London

Suffragette Policeman Beggar. Suffragette is escorted away by three policemen. A beggar or mendicant, cap outstretched, asks, Can you spare a copper, lady? Date: circa 1910

Pavement artist 1930s
A pavement artist kneels by his work, drawn in chalk on the street. The central wording reads, light burdens long borne grow heavy

Lady giving beggar money
A well-dressed lady giving a blind beggar with an artificial leg sitting against a wall with a poster of St. Dunstans, the charity set up to aid servicemen blinded in the war. Date: 1930s

Chinese Begging Monk
A beggar monk, sitting in the lotus position during meditation, Tientsin, China. Date: 1930s

Boy with pet dog
Boy with Dog. Ceruti, Giacomo 1698-1767. Born in Milan, Ceruti trained there and absorbed the north Italian interest in still-life painting associated with the work of Caravaggio

China - Chinese Beggar with severe elephantiasis of the foot. Date: circa 1920s

Yichang, China - Chinese Beggar
Chinese Beggar on the street at Yichang, a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, Peoples Republic of China. Date: 1920

Serbian Beggar - clutching a handful of unusual root vegetables... Date: circa 1910s

Blind Beggar on a London Street, with a sign explaining his situation around his neck and a small scrawny pet dog at his side

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