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Path to riches and happiness . To which are added, The apprentice's monitor; or, indentures in verse. And the market woman; or, honesty is the best policy. A true tale.
Benjamin FranklinDate: [1800?]
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Ananias drops dead after having secretly withheld part of his wealth from the communal fund of the apostles. Engraving after Raphael.
RaphaelReference: 24787i
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A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.
Tal-Zar.Reference: 16923i
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A liveried footman sends on their way a starving family who are sitting outside the side-door of a mansion. Wood engraving by J. Thompson after Fred Tayler.
John Frederick TaylerDate: [1845]Reference: 31995i
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Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching by T. Worlidge, 1758, after Rembrandt, 1649.
RembrandtDate: 1758Reference: 23835i
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Lazarus's sores are licked by dogs as Dives feasts. Process print, 1931, after J. Lamsveld.
Jan LamsveltDate: 1931Reference: 23941i
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Father Abraham's speech to a great number of people, at a vendue of merchant-goods introduced to the publick by Poor Richard, (a famous Pennsylvanian conjurer and almanack-maker) in answer to the following questions. Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Won' these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we be ever able to pay them? What would you advise us to?.
Benjamin FranklinDate: [1760]
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Judith Levy, a rich Jewess. Etching.
Reference: 866i
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The infant Jesus grabs at the gold offered to him by the Magi. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Peter Paul RubensReference: 22186i
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A vain man making extravagant charitable bequests. Engraving by N. Guérard, 1715/1719.
Nicolas GuérardDate: [1715/1719]Reference: 46978i
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A dwarfish alchemist, caricatured because of the vanity of his obsession. Line engraving, c. 1720.
Reference: 17843i
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A wealthy man is stabbed by a skeleton while a man weighs coins on the other side of the table; representing the vanity of riches. Engraving by M. Pregel, 1616.
Date: 1616Reference: 26748i
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A rich miser eating humble food. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli, c. 1800.
Piattoli, Giuseppe, active 1785-1807.Reference: 17941i
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Judith Levy, a rich Jewess. Etching, 1803.
Date: 1 April 1803Reference: 865i
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The adoration of the magi: a king kneels before the infant Jesus, seated on Mary's lap. Engraving by E. Fessard after C.J. Natoire.
Charles-Joseph NatoireDate: 1752Reference: 24060i
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A man picks up the money spilling from a rich gentleman's pockets. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli (?), c. 1800.
Piattoli, Giuseppe, active 1785-1807.Reference: 17942i
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The fortunes of Peter Pickle, Esquire, whose fashionable lifestyle ends with a drink problem. Etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
Robert SeymourDate: 1 July 1829Reference: 26477i
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The rich visiting the poor and needy bringing alms, with a quote from the Bible. Line engraving by B. Baron, 1728, after a painting attributed to Frans Francken I.
Frans Francken IDate: 1728Reference: 17724i
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A wife tells her husband to add her charitable givings to his records of their outgoings. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Reference: 17016i
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Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
HenriotReference: 17002i
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Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching by T. Worlidge, 1758, after Rembrandt, 1649.
RembrandtDate: 1758Reference: 23834i
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The golden calf, the idol of worship. Being an enquiry physico-critico-patheologico-moral into the nature and efficacy of gold: Shewing The wonderful Power it has over, and the prodigious Changes it causes in the Minds of Men. With an account of the wonders of the psychoptic looking-glass, lately invented by the author, Joakim Philander, M.A
Philander, JoakimDate: MDCCXLIV. [1744]
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Wealth and welfare / by A.C. Pigou.
Arthur Cecil PigouDate: 1912
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A woman surrounded by bubbles is sitting in front of a table with temporal riches, while smoke rises out of a cup; representing vanity. Engraving by W.I. Swanenburgh after A. Bloemaert.
Abraham BloemaertDate: 1611Reference: 38994i
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A vicar prays for a dying usurer while his wife receives medical advice. Mezzotint by B. Clowes after W. Dawes, 1768.
Dawes, William, active 1760-1774.Date: 12 March 1768Reference: 18061i