Destitute Collection (#3)

The Good Little Girls, 1832. Creator: Auguste Raffet
The Good Little Girls, 1832

Destitute pea pickers in California, mother of seven children, Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

This family...about to be returned to Oklahoma...Neideffer Camp, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This family without food and work about to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. They have lost a baby as a result of exposure during the winter

Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen... CA, Imperial Valley, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California. Imperial Valley

Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California, Imperial Valley, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California. Imperial Valley

Warehouse, used as distributing office for FSA... Bakersfield, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Warehouse, used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families during cotton strike of October 1938

Orphan-House, Ashley Down, near Bristol, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Orphan-House, Ashley Down, near Bristol, 1850.... there has lately sprung up a new religious sect, known by the inconvenient and undeclinable name of Craik-and-Mullerites

Too Truthful - painted by A. Solomon, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Too Truthful - painted by A. Solomon, 1850. Painting...from the Middle Room of the Royal Academy Exhibition [in London], [which] illustrates a by no means uncommon artistic difficulty - that of

Quarter-Deck of an Emigrant Ship - Roll-Call, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Quarter-Deck of an Emigrant Ship - Roll-Call, 1850. Emigrants leaving Britain for the colonies: United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia or New Zealand

Celebration of Palm Sunday in the Hall of Sackville College, East Grinstead, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Celebration of Palm Sunday in the Hall of Sackville College, East Grinstead, [Sussex]. 1850. This Hall, until lately used as a scullery, is a spacious lofty room with an open oak roof of three bays

Irish Poets Grace to Short Allowance!, 1805-1810. Creator: Isaac Cruikshank
Irish Poets Grace to Short Allowance!, 1805-1810

Looking Backward, from Puck, n.d. Creator: Joseph Keppler
Looking Backward, from Puck, n.d

Emigrant Ship, between Decks, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Emigrant Ship, between Decks, 1850. Sailing ship bound for the colonies, showing:female emigrants making their arrangements for the voyage...[The women were enabled to emigrate by] the movement

Emigrant Needlewomen on Deck, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Emigrant Needlewomen on Deck, 1850. Sailing ship bound for the colonies. The women were enabled to emigrate by...the movement on behalf of the distressed needlewomen or London...the ladies

The Liverpool Industrial Schools, at Kirkdale, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Liverpool Industrial Schools, at Kirkdale, [near Liverpool], 1850. It was found...that the juvenile pauperism of Liverpool was so largely on the increase as to be incapable of being accommodated

The Filthy Man, n.d. Creator: Mariano Jose Maria Bernardo Fortuny y Carbo
The Filthy Man, n.d

A Beggar, n.d. Creator: Mariano Jose Maria Bernardo Fortuny y Carbo
A Beggar, n.d

Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski
Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d

Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski
Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d

Anniversary Meeting of the Charity Children in St. Paul's Cathedral, Jun 6, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Anniversary Meeting of the Charity Children in St. Paul's Cathedral, [London], Jun 6, 1850....never did the sunbeams which occasionally streamed through the vaulted dome seem so much like

The Beggar, plate one from The Ranks and Conditions of Men, c.1465. Creator: Unknown
The Beggar, plate one from The Ranks and Conditions of Men, c.1465

Scene between Decks, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Scene between Decks, 1850. Emigrants leaving Britain for the colonies: United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia or New Zealand

Jubilee Dinner of the Clerkenwell Parochial Charity Schools, 1850. Creator: Smyth
Jubilee Dinner of the Clerkenwell Parochial Charity Schools, [London], 1850. The Schools were founded...for the purpose of educating

Mansi (Chinese exiles on the Russian border), 1865-1871. Creator: VV Lanin
Mansi (Chinese exiles on the Russian border), 1865-1871. This album contains 154 photographs taken in the second half of the 1860s and 1870s by a local photographer from the Far East, V. V. Lanin

The Unsafe Tenement. One of the Twelve Etchings from Nature. (The French Set), 1858

Self-portrait, 1910 (gouache, watercolour and charcoal on paper)
990803 Self-portrait, 1910 (gouache, watercolour and charcoal on paper) by Schiele, Egon (1890-1918); 45x30 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Self-portrait; Selbstbildnis. Egon Schiele (1890-1918)

Training Ship Arethusa
Boys in naval uniform exercise on the training ship Arethusa, moored on the Thames at Greenhithe and run by the National Refuge for Homeless and Destitute Children

Pestalozzi Village for Children in Sedlescombe, East Sussex, 24th August 1959. The community is named after eighteenth century Swiss educationalist, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

An old woman holds out a cup to beg on a Venice bridge
An old woman holds out a cup to beg for money. She sits and half-lies on the stone steps of a bridge in Venice, Italy. People walk by Date: 2013

A soup kitchen in Paris in the 1800s (litho)
KW363051 A soup kitchen in Paris in the 1800s (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: from a 19th century illustration;)

Herring Seller; Heringsverkaufer, 1925 (watercolour and pencil on paper)
656563 Herring Seller; Heringsverkaufer, 1925 (watercolour and pencil on paper) by Hell, Johan van (1889-1952); 49.5x43.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Herring Seller; Heringsverkaufer)

The Old Miner, 1925 (oil on canvas)
823239 The Old Miner, 1925 (oil on canvas) by Dunn, Harvey T. (1884-1952); 77x101 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: The Old Miner. Harvey T. Dunn (1884-1952). Oil on canvas. Painted in 1925

Homeless, the flight from the German hordes, from The Illustrated War News (litho)
STC312573 Homeless, the flight from the German hordes, from The Illustrated War News (litho) by Jack, Richard (1866-1952) (after); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection

An Indian Boy, 1927 (oil on canvas)
657748 An Indian Boy, 1927 (oil on canvas) by Birley, Oswald Hornby Joseph (1880-1952); Private Collection; (add.info.: An Indian Boy. Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley (1880-1952). Oil on canvas

The Mont-de-Piete (coloured engraving)
XIR226003 The Mont-de-Piete (coloured engraving) by Heilbuth, Ferdinand (1826-89) (after); Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France

A Decorative Roundel with Odysseus Fighting the Beggar, and with Sphynxs (oil on canvas)
659353 A Decorative Roundel with Odysseus Fighting the Beggar, and with Sphynxs (oil on canvas) by Wit, Jacob de (1695-1754) (school of)

The Recalcitrant Donkey, 1798 (pen and grey ink and watercolour)
652084 The Recalcitrant Donkey, 1798 (pen and grey ink and watercolour) by Ibbetson, Julius Caesar (1759-1817); 21.5x27.9 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: The Recalcitrant Donkey)

Peasants Brawling, 1619 (oil on panel)
990386 Peasants Brawling, 1619 (oil on panel) by Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (c.1564-1638); 73x103 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Peasants Brawling. Pieter Brueghel, the Younger (c.1564-1638)

The Death of the Pauper (oil on canvas)
XIR182013 The Death of the Pauper (oil on canvas) by Antigna, Alexandre (1817-78); 128x193 cm; Musee Charles-de-Bruyeres, Remiremont, France

Peasant in Front of a Thatched Cottage; Paysanne devant la Chaumiere, (oil on cardboard)
826629 Peasant in Front of a Thatched Cottage; Paysanne devant la Chaumiere, (oil on cardboard) by Charreton, Victor (1864-1937); 60x73 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

A Young Fishergirl by the Sea, 1884 (pencil and watercolour)
828460 A Young Fishergirl by the Sea, 1884 (pencil and watercolour) by Smith, Carlton Alfred (1853-1946); 40.4x29.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: A Young Fishergirl by the Sea)

A Peasant Family, (watercolour and pencil on paper)
657162 A Peasant Family, (watercolour and pencil on paper) by Hodgkins, Frances (1869-1947); 22.86x25.40 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: A Peasant Family. Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947)

The Steerage, 1907; 1911 (photogravure)
991522 The Steerage, 1907; 1911 (photogravure) by Stieglitz, Alfred (1864-1946); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Steerage)

Lady with Hat; Dame mit Hut, (gouache on paper)
655887 Lady with Hat; Dame mit Hut, (gouache on paper) by Scheiber, Hugo (1873-1950); 69x49 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Lady with Hat; Dame mit Hut. Hugo Scheiber (1873-1950)

The Worlds Army of Unemployed, from Crisis, published Hamburg 1931 (coloured chalk on paper)
CHT207461 The Worlds Army of Unemployed, from Crisis, published Hamburg 1931 (coloured chalk on paper) by Thony, Eduard (1866-1950); Private Collection; © Archives Charmet

The Pedlar, 1879 (oil on canvas)
658915 The Pedlar, 1879 (oil on canvas) by Induno, Gerolamo (1827-90); 44x57 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: The Pedlar. Gerolamo Induno (1827-1890). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1879

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"From Pea Pickers to Street Urchins: A Glimpse into Destitution" Capturing the harsh reality of destitution, this powerful image depicts destitute pea pickers in California during a time of great struggle. The mother of seven children fights against all odds to provide for her family. Transporting us back in time, an etching from 1630 portrays a beggar seated on a bank, highlighting the desperate circumstances faced by those living in poverty centuries ago. Amidst the hardships, hope emerges as we witness boys training aboard the Training Ship Indefatigable - an opportunity for underprivileged youth to escape their destitute lives and build a brighter future. Offering shelter and support, Shaftesbury and Arethusa Boys Homes in Royston, Hertfordshire provided solace for young boys facing destitution – giving them a chance at a better life. In 1936, an old man watches helplessly as his shack is demolished in Kingsdown; symbolizing not only the loss of his home but also the crushing weight of poverty that he must endure. Satirical yet thought-provoking, "MOVE ON POLICE SATIRE" sheds light on society's indifference towards those suffering from destitution - urging us to confront our own biases and take action. Delving into history once again, "The Movings" by Louis Leopold Boilly captures scenes of eviction during 1822 - reminding us that homelessness has plagued humanity throughout time. Through artistry comes empathy as we observe "Playing a Tune, " an oil painting depicting musicians who find solace amidst their impoverished surroundings - showcasing resilience even in dire circumstances. Unveiling the horrors brought upon Ireland during its union with Britain is "Horrors of the Irish Union: Botheration of Poor Pat.