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- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1833]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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 catalogue
- Description:
- Title 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., and No. 57.
- Publisher:
- Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton-Street, Clare-Market
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Almshouses, Children, Forced labor, British, Punishment & torture, Poor persons, Law and legislation, Poor laws, and Political satire, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Interior of an English workhouse* under the new Poor Law Act [graphic].