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  • A sick man (Valentine) in bed with his hand held by his sister Camilla: the landlady demands the rent as David Simple enters the room. Line engraving by W. Blake, 1782, after T. Stothard.
  • Dr Samuel Johnson reading the manuscript of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The vicar of Wakefield', while a bailiff waits with the landlady. Mezzotint by S. Bellin, 1845, after E.M. Ward.
  • A monkey poet, in arrears with his rent, is embarrassed when his landlady opens the door to present him with bills. Etching by T. Landseer, 1828.
  • An elderly land-lady taking a warming-pan to put in her lodgers bed, which is already occupied by someone else. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.