A thing of shreds and patches. Hamlet [art original]Carruthers, William, active 1824, artist[1824]engWatercolor of a beggar dressed in ragged, patched clothes, leaning on two crutches and wearing a bag slung across his body with the words "Scraps thankfully received" lettered upon it. He wears an eye patch on his right eye; a pipe sticks out of his hatTitle, a quote from Hamlet, written in ink beneath image.Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower portion of image. Artist's full name "Wm. Carruthers Esqre." is written within wash-line border at bottom.For a lithograph of this design in reverse, published March 1825 by E. Hull and Rowe & Walker, see Wellcome Collection reference: 664653i.