EditorialTwenty-four Japanese examples of filial piety for the Honors (series title), A boy reads a document while an older man in the background listens to him. With two poems. This print refers to the story of a man giving land back to the destitute son of th...
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Twenty-fifth night: The destitute Mukhtar meets his wife Maimuna at a holy shrine, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper.
EditorialDestitute Dead Mother holding her sleeping Child in Winter, c. 1850. Octave Tassaert (French, 1800-1874). Oil on canvas; framed: 33 x 25 cm (13 x 9 13/16 in.).
EditorialStuart Houses from the reign of King Charles I in the Foliated Style on the south side of London Wall street, 1808. Oak timber house with plaster foliage. Characters depicted include itinerant spoon-seller William Conway and destitute fishmonger John B...
Editorial'The maniac father and the convict brother are gone - the poor girl, homeless, friendless, deserted, destitute, and gin-mad, commits self-murder'. The Bottle, and the Drunkard's Children. In sixteen plates designed and etched by G. Cruikshank.. London,...
EditorialMotherless Mary entreating Charlotte Bouverie to visit her afflicted parent'. Two women of the regency era. Motherless Mary; or, The interesting history of a friendless orphan, who, being at her mother's death, left entirely destitute, is taken to the ...
EditorialChristian Charity, 19th century, Danish, Terracotta, 26 ? 19 1/4 in. (66 ? 48.9 cm), Sculpture, After a composition by Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish, Copenhagen 1770?1844 Copenhagen), This work is a highly finished study for one of four marble reliefs ori...
EditorialStuart Houses from the reign of King Charles I in the Foliated Style on the south side of London Wall street, 1808. Oak timber house with plaster foliage. Characters depicted include itinerant spoon-seller William Conway and destitute fishmonger John B...
EditorialA new way to pay the national-debt, Cartoon shows King George III and Queen Charlotte standing before the Treasury, moneybags under their arms, their pockets overflowing and bursting with coins (funds from the Treasury to cover Royal debts), William Pi...
EditorialA new way to pay the national-debt, Cartoon shows King George III and Queen Charlotte standing before the Treasury, moneybags under their arms, their pockets overflowing and bursting with coins (funds from the Treasury to cover Royal debts), William Pi...
EditorialThe "Fuggerei", the world's first housing project for the destitute of Augsburg, Bavaria,created by Jakob Fugger "the Rich" between 1516 and 1525. 106 apartments with an annual rent of aproximately two German Marks, according to the Deed of Foundation ...