Pity Collection

BAREFOOT GIRL / BREAD 1905
A generous girl gives a poor street girl some bread outside a bakers shop Date: 1905

Music cover, Oh the Pity of It All, words by Leo Robin, music by Ralph Rainger, from the 20th Century Fox film My Gal Sal starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature Date: 1942

Pity the Unemployed by John Hassall
A man pushing a cart with the sign, Pity the Unemployed disappears into a pub. John Hassall, author of the illustration includes the caption, " With apologies to the real unemployed."

An Ounce of Help is Worth a Pound of Pity. Artists interpretation of a traditional proverb. Artist: Helen GC Marsh Lambert. Date: circa 1916

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

Calypso & Odysseus
Calypso takes pity on homesick Odysseus and agrees to allow him to return to his wife, Penlope. "

Group of people in ragtime fancy dress
A group of people in ragtime style fancy dress, including a cowboy on a mule, two policemen, men in drag, a pierrot, a chef, and a few blacked-up faces. Date: 1920s

Bust of Painful Virgin, ca. 1755, by Francisco Salzillo (1707
Francisco Salzillo (1707-1783). Spanish sculptor. Painful Virgin. Ca. 1755. Museum of Albacete. Spain

The Cawnpore(Kanpur) Memorial, 1874
The Cawnpore(Kanpur) Memorial, near the site of the massacre by Nana Sahibs forces in 1857. An angel of pity, sculpted in white marble by Baron Marochetti, covers the site of the well

Pity the Poor Bowler by A T Smith
Humorous cartoon showing a small boy in church with his mother, pointing out the hymn numbers on the wall, and mistaking them for cricket scores

PITY ME HAMLET SIGN
Pity Me, is the curious name of a hamlet near Durham, Co Durham, England. Date: 1930s

Francois Westermann
FRANCOIS-JOSEPH WESTERMANN unscrupulous soldier and thief, who acted without pity to suppress the Vendee resistance, but was guillotined along with Danton. Date: 1751 - 1794

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

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

Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier - RNIB postcard
Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier looking back on his past life and the activities he is unable to continue to pursue due to his lost sight - Fund-raising postcard for the Home Teaching Branch of

Greek Anti-Allies Propaganda Postcard
Greek anti-British/American propaganda postcard from the Second World War. The caption translates as: " Greeks! If you are sorrowful for the future of your children - pity the British children

A very poor man - Algiers, Algeria Date: circa 1920s

Pity the poor strap hanger
An image illustrating the introduction of hand straps on underground trains. When straps were added to underground railway carriages in the early 1900s, there was an outcry among travellers

Pity the Poor Ratepayer
Pity the poor ratepayer - as he is presented with bills by Joseph Chamberlain and his colleagues for education and gas, poor rate, pin money and the Queens taxes

Chateaubriand / Atala
ATALA - the heroine, a princess with a Christian mother (note the cross), takes pity on the captured warrior Chactas, frees him and escapes with him into the jungle

Generous Beggar / 1833
TRUE GENEROSITY " When I see anyone worse off then myself I pity them" ( Where will he find one ) A ragged yet forthright beggar offers a generous view on life

Margarete in Prison
Margarete, in prison, repents her lapse - she is now pregnant with Fausts child - and the angels take pity on her

Ortrud Begs Elsas Pity
The evil Ortrud, exiled, implores Elsas pity, and she, innocent fool that she is, becomes suspicious of Lohengrin - can he indeed be a magician ? She must find out

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