A man who claims to be a philanthropist kicks out at a starving family who have asked for help. Process print after G. Cruikshank, 1848.

1 print : process print, line block ; image 7.8 x 12 cm

The universal philanthropist. Please sir bestow your charity - for we are starving. Why you impudent scroundel! Asking me for anythihg! Haven't I made you? - would you have ever have been known if it hadn't been for me? and is this the return you make me?. Interrupting me too, at a moment when I am perfecting a grand benevolent plan of Universal Brotherhood and Community of Goods, for the amelioration of the whole human race! - Why you ungrateful wretch, get out of my house and learn to love your benefactors!! The man holds a scroll of "Grand scheme of universal benevolence"

Wellcome Collection 32349i