Editorial Members of the London Society of Pearly Kings and Queens arrive for a meeting to discuss their charity work and upcoming events, at St. Paul’s Church in Covent Garden, London on March 19, 2023. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
Editorial Members of the London Society of Pearly Kings and Queens arrive for a meeting to discuss their charity work and upcoming events, at St. Paul’s Church in Covent Garden, London on March 19, 2023. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
Editorial Members of the London Society of Pearly Kings and Queens arrive for a meeting to discuss their charity work and upcoming events, at St. Paul’s Church in Covent Garden, London on March 19, 2023. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
EditorialPoems of William Blake. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Autograph drafts of 'The Question Answered'; 'The Chimney Sweeper' and 'Holy Thursday' from Songs of Experience; 'Lacedemonian Instruction'; 'Riches'; 'An answer...
EditorialStreet-crossing sweeper boy in a large waistcoast and soldier's jacket. With dog and broom. Worked Prince's Street and Hanover Square. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers t...
EditorialIndian servants' clothes: jaliya or fisherman, harkara or messenger, dai or wetnurse with baby, ayah or nursery maid with child, ladies' maid, and methrani or female sweeper. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois...
EditorialThe Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweeper. "Have you really courage to go into the wide World with me?" asked the Chimney-Sweeper. . Fairy Tales ... Illustrated by Harry Clarke. F.P. London : G. G. Harrap & Co., [1916]. Source: K.T.C.102.a.15 plate op...
EditorialThe crossing sweeper. A Hindu road sweeper. Illustration from ‘London town’. London town. Marcus Ward & Co.: London, 1883. Image taken from : London Town. Verses by Felix Leigh. Source: 12805.s.9, page 50.
EditorialA road sweeper and a lady and gentleman. Scenes and cries of London. London : Dean and Son, Juvenile and Educational Book Warehouse ..., [1861]. Source: C.194.b.80.(16) f.3v.
EditorialBhangi, a caste represented by a sweeper. Tashrih al-aqvam, an account of origins and occupations of some of the sects, castes and tribes of India. Written at Hansi Cantonment, Hissar District, eighty-five miles north-west of Delhi for Colonel James Sk...
EditorialIllustration for a music cover, depicting a crossing-sweeper Jennie Lee as the crossing-sweeper Jo, at the gate to the cemetary, in the adaptation of Charles Dicken's Bleak House. "Jo" galop for the Pianoforte. London, [1876]. Source: h.1483.k.(30).