Arkivism
Beggars in East and West India
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Beggars in East and West India

Romeyn de Hooghe · 1682 - 1733 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Landscape with beggars who primarily try to move people to give alms by evoking pity. They threaten to harm themselves. Thus, on the right, a man stabs himself in the chest. Another man clad in a tiger skin drinks filth from a pot. Another man, after being refused, has cut off his own head. This head is then shown to the people by another man. In the foreground, Japanese beggars. Old men and children are carried in baskets bound with ropes and poles to oxen. With a legend in Dutch and French. The print is part of an album.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineBedelaars in Oost- en West-Indië. 1682 - 1733. Romeyn de Hooghe. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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