Interior of an English workhouse* under the new Poor Law Act [graphic].Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker[approximately 1833]eng"Emaciated and shaven-headed paupers treated as slaves by cruel overseers: adults beating hemp and children picking rope in the foreground, others in the background manacled to the wall or hanging from the ceiling, tied up by their feet and hands; to right, a manager with a scourge seizing an elderly man, and a man pulling a cart, which he says is full of dead infants to be sold to surgeons; to left, a manager turning away the starving poor who beg to be let in."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from item.Text below title: Dedicated to those two ugly old women, Mothers Brougham and Martineau.Asterisk in title is explained by note below image, in lower right: * For workhouse, read slave house.Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue.Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue.Wood engraving with letterpress text.