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  • A liveried footman sends on their way a starving family who are sitting outside the side-door of a mansion. Wood engraving by J. Thompson after Fred Tayler.
  • A woman wearing a ruff carrying a small child in her arms. Engraving with etching.
  • Krishna sitting in a tree with all the gopis clothes while they naked in the water, beg for their garments. Chromolithograph after Ravi Varma.
  • Two pilgrims. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot, ca. 1622.
  • A bearded beggar dressed in rags holding a hat and a staff in his right hand. Etching by J. Callot.
  • Travelling gypsies. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot.
  • People with impaired arms and legs. Process prints.
  • Disabled and paralysed people lying outside a wall of the cemetery Santo Spirito in Rome begging for alms from passers-by. Coloured lithograph by F. Villain after A.J.-B. Thomas, 1823.
  • A woman begging with three children, one of them a naked infant, under the arch of a town-wall. Lithograph.
  • The British Museum in Montague House: the Russell Street façade. Coloured aquatint after T.H. Shepherd.
  • Krishna, playing the flute, seated in a tree with the milkmaids' clothes, while they, naked and in water gather around the tree begging for their clothes. Chromolithograph.
  • Savitrī pleading with Yama for her husband, Satyavān's life. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • An old man sitting cross-legged on the ground next to his crutches. Etching by C. Jacque.
  • A bearded beggar sitting on a stone eats from a bowl while he holds his staff in his right hand. Etching with engraving possibly after J. Callot.
  • A one-legged beggar with two crutches. Gouache possibly after J. Callot.
  • Beggar with a wooden leg. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot, ca. 1622.
  • A variety of beggars, members of the organization of the "Argot". Wood engraving by A. Rivaud after a tapestry in Reims.
  • A man with a wooden leg pours water into the bowl of a begging woman with two children. Coloured aquatint, 1803, after a painter from Thanjavur.
  • A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging / by C.J. Ribton-Turner.