Spanish Beggars

William Bright Morris 1844 - 1915

Summary

Figure group of a Spanish beggar in ragged clothes, with two small children, a boy carried on his back and a young girl standing to the left of him. He stands with a shawl wrapped around himself and his son, a hat carried in one hand, against a whitewashed wall with Moorish architectural detail. The colours are muted and dull shades of red, blue and off-white.