Interior of an English workhouse* under the new Poor Law Act [graphic].

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Title: Interior of an English workhouse* under the new Poor Law Act [graphic].
Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Contributor: Drake, G., active 1832-1836, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1833]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton-Street, Clare-Market
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.
No. 57.
Provenance: Jarndyce; December 2016.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 28.2 x 45 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1833
Wood engravings 1833
Material: wood engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Great Britain
Subject (Topic): Almshouses
Children
Forced labor
British
Punishment & torture
Poor persons
Law and legislation
Poor laws
Political satire, English
Subjects: Almshouses
Children
Forced labor > British
Punishment & torture
Poor persons
Almshouses > Law and legislation > Great Britain
Poor laws > Great Britain > 19th century
Political satire, English > 19th century
England > 1833
1833

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