Title

Fable V, the beau and the beggar ...', c1770. Artist: I Smith

Caption

'Fable V, the beau and the beggar ...', c1770. The scene is Pottage Island, an area behind St Martin-in-the-Fields then inhabited by cooks. A man on the left vomits while a poor beggar steps eagerly towards a joint of meat which is about to be carved.

Date

1770

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Reference

HRM19B00_203

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,6Mb (1,0Mb) / 6,6in x 10,9in / 1990 x 3268 (300dpi)

Keywords

London England food people male job man men health carving country guy occupation British English illness poor poverty meat Westminster location century Britain profession sickness sick ill concept vomiting georgian butcher B&W beggar beggars cartoon MONOCHROME black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century City of Westminster Guildhall Library & Art Gallery TGN satire engraving Pottage Island I I Smith I Smith;Smith Smith I