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Print made by: William Blake

After: Samuel Collings
Published by: Harrison & Co
Title
The Blind Beggars Hats
Description
English: 'The Wit's Magazine', i. 123. Illustration to verses by Holcroft with the same title, pp. 151-3, said to be taken from 'L'Utile col Dolci', published at Florence 'with the approbation of the archbishop'. A scene in a Florentine street or piazza in front of a Gothic shrine (left) in which is a Virgin and child. Two blind beggars, each with a dog, are fighting. A well-dressed man walks off with their hats, looking at them over his shoulder with a smile. Spectators look from a window and a door. A penniless man of ancient family prays regularly to the Virgin for relief.


On one occasion he hears two blind beggars at her shrine boasting of the wealth concealed in their hats; he thereupon runs away with the hats, confesses to a prelate, who approves, but insists on taking a major share of the spoil. 1 May 1784


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Depicted people Illustration to: Thomas Holcroft (editor and playwright)
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 187 millimetres
Width: 224 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1872,1109.325
Notes

This print is related to verses "The Beggars Hats; or, the Way to Get Rich". The verses appear in letterpress in the text of "The Wit's Magazine", pp. 151-53, and were written by Holcroft, the magazine's editor.

For William Blake's prints for "The Wit's Magazine", etched after designs by Thomas Stothard and Samuel Collings, see 1872,1109.322-26 and J,7.6.

Another impression of this print is in a scrapbook in the British Museum collection, reg. no. 1979,1110.25 (not yet catalogued on-line, as of 12th July 2004).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1872-1109-325
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