Author: Sean ShesgreenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781851245512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Hawkers, Beggars and Quacks - Portraits from the Cries of London
Author: Sean ShesgreenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781851245512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Lives of Famous London Beggars
Author: John Thomas SmithPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
In John Thomas Smith's 'Lives of Famous London Beggars', readers are taken on a detailed journey through the lives of some of London's most well-known beggars. Through Smith's vivid descriptions and meticulous research, the book provides a fascinating insight into the world of poverty and survival in 19th-century London. Smith's writing style is both informative and engaging, making this book a captivating read for those interested in social history and the lives of marginalized individuals in society. The book also offers valuable insights into the literary context of the time, shedding light on the ways in which poverty and homelessness were depicted in literature during that era.
Lives of Famous London Beggars
Author: James ZimmerhoffPublisher:
ISBN: 9781549541995
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Mr Granger, at the close of his Biographical History of England, says, "I shall conclude this volume with observing, that Lord Bacon has somewhere remarked, that biography has been confined within too narrow limits; as if the lives of great personages only deserved the notice of the inquisitive part of mankind. I have, perhaps, in the foregoing strictures extended the sphere of it too far. I began with Monarchs, and have ended with Ballad-Singers, Chimney-Sweepers, and Beggars. But they that fill the highest and the lowest classes of human life, seem, in many respects, to be more nearly allied than even themselves imagine. A skilful anatomist would find little or no difference, in dissecting the body of a king and that of the meanest of his subjects; and a judicious philosopher would discover a surprising conformity, in discussing the nature and qualities of their minds."BEGGARY, of late, particularly for the last six years, had become so dreadful in London, that the more active interference of the legislature was deemed absolutely necessary; indeed, the deceptions of the idle and sturdy were so various, cunning, and extensive, that it was in most instances extremely difficult to discover the real object of charity from the impostor.Concluding, therefore, from the reduction of the metropolitan beggars, that several curious characters would disappear by being either compelled to industry, or to partake of the liberal parochial rates provided for them in their respective workhouses, it occurred to the author of the present publication, that likenesses of the most remarkable of them, with a few particulars of their habits, would not be unamusing to those to whom they have been a pest for several years.In order to convince his readers that he does not stand alone as a delineator of mendicants, he begs leave to observe, that several of the very first-rate artists have studied from them.Michael Angelo Buonarotti often drew from beggars; and report says, that in the early part of his life, when he had not the means of paying them in money, he would make an additional sketch, and, presenting it to the party, desire him to take it to some particular person, who would purchase it. Fuseli, in his life of Michael Angelo, says that "a beggar rose from his hand the patriarch of poverty." The same artist, in one of his lectures, delivered at the Royal Academy, also observes, that "Michael Angelo ennobled his beggars into Patriarchs and Prophets, in the ceiling of the Sistini Chapel."Annibal Caracci frequently drew subjects in low life. His "Cries of Bologna," etched by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, pub. 1660, in folio, are evidently from real characters. It will also be recollected, that some of the finest productions of Murillo, Jan Miel, and Drogsloot, are beggars. Callot's twenty-four beggars are evidently from nature; and among Rembrandt's etchings are to be found twenty-three plates of this description.Sir Joshua Reynolds frequently painted from beggars, and from these people have originated some of his finest pictures, particularly his "Mercury as a Pickpocket," and "Cupid as a Link-boy." His Count Ugolino, was painted from a pavier, soon after he had left St George's Hospital from a severe fever. Mr West painted the portrait of a beggar, on the day when he became a hundred years old; and considered him as a pensioner for several years afterwards. The same person was used also as a model by Copley, Opie, &c. Who can forget the lovely countenance of Gainsborough's Shepherd's Boy, that has once seen Earlom's excellent engraving from it? He was a lad well known as a beggar to those who walked St James's Street thirty years ago. The model for the celebrated picture of the Woodman, by the same artist, is now living in the Borough, at the venerable age of 107.
A History of Caricature & Grotesque in Literature and Art
Author: Thomas WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Mighty Lewd Books
Author: J. PeakmanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.
The French Revolution
Author: Thomas CarlyleLondon in the Time of the Stuarts
Author: Walter BesantPublisher: London : A.& C. Black
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Hundred Secret Senses
Author: Amy TanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101202947
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivia's sarcasm, and sees the dead with her "yin eyes." Even as Olivia details the particulars of her decades-long grudge against her sister (who, among other things, is a source of infuriatingly good advice), Kwan Li is telling her own story, one that sweeps us into the splendor, squalor, and violence of Manchu China. And out of the friction between her narrators, Amy Tan creates a work that illuminates both the present and the past sweetly, sadly, hilariously, with searing and vivid prose. "Truly magical...unforgettable...this novel...shimmer[s] with meaning."--San Diego Tribune "The Hundred Secret Senses doesn't simply return to a world but burrows more deeply into it, following new trails to fresh revelations."--Newsweek
Engravings by Hogarth
Author: William HogarthPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486224791
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress, Before and After, and Marriage a la Mode are among the prints presented with descriptive notes and an introductory discussion of Hogarth's style
A history of advertising
Author: Henry SampsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description