File:Beggars beginning the day (BM 1868,0808.9426).jpg
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[edit]Beggars beginning the day ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: Robert Seymour
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Title |
Beggars beginning the day |
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Description |
English: A beggars' lodging-house, a barn-like structure, with a ladder leading to a loft, a heap of straw against the back wall, a makeshift table, two chairs, and a stool. On the wall is a peg-leg. One stalwart beggar walks with crutch and crutched stick, another sits on the stool adjusting a peg-leg to his knee, his leg doubled back; he shouts: 'Vy Jim you've forgot to tie up your leg'. A ragged boy with a basket of matches registers amusement. A seemingly old man (left) makes up his face at a cracked mirror. On the right a fat woman and a respectably dressed man sit at the table; the woman pours out tea, while the man holds a tankard and smokes a pipe. She says: 'Vel I cant think how a man wat does the gemman so vel can like sich a wulgar breakfast'. He answers: 'Ah you dont know what hard work the respectable lag is, it requires noureshment Mrs Maggs'. A girl crossing-sweeper with a broom stands by the ladder shouting up at the loft: 'Mother!! lend us one of your babies, vill you mother?' A woman's arm projects from the loft holding an infant suspended by its single garment: 'Here take it, and dont squall so, bring me tea vith brandy in it I feel very narvical'. Rats snuff at bones on the floor, and two cats watch a rat-hole. The beggars are well characterized. Feb 7 1832
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Date |
1832 date QS:P571,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.9426 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) Cf. No. 14351 for Tom and Jerry among the 'Cadgers' in the 'Back Slums' of St. Giles. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9426 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Date and time of digitizing | 13:04, 22 July 2009 |
File change date and time | 13:06, 22 July 2009 |
Date metadata was last modified | 13:06, 22 July 2009 |