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Grace at meals

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  • A Quaker family are sitting at the dinner table and the father has his hands together as he gives thanks for the food. Mezzotint by Charles G. Lewis after Alexander Fraser.
  • A shepherd's family saying grace at the meal table with a sheep dog sitting under the father's chair. Mezzotint with engraving by Edward Burton, 1851, after Alexander George Fraser.
  • Potosí, Peru (later Bolivia): Edmond Temple, a lady (Doña Juliana), her Andean servants and two clerics assembled for grace after dinner. Aquatint by J. Clark, 1829, after W. Hornsby.
  • Enoch and his family praying before taking a frugal meal outside a farm building while a woman gives alms to poor and lame people who approach the farm. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.
  • Children at table saying grace. Engraving by Adrien Nargeot after Chardin.
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    Children at table saying grace. Engraving by Adrien Nargeot after Chardin.

    Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon, 1699-1779. | Date: July 1858 | Reference: 30639i
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    A shepherd's family saying grace at the meal table with a sheep dog sitting under the father's chair. Mezzotint with engraving by Edward Burton, 1851, after Alexander George Fraser.

    Fraser, Alexander, 1786-1865. | Date: 1851 | Reference: 27015i
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    A boy, a woman and an old man sit around a barrel table; behind, a boy watches the fire. Engraving by C.E. Lempereur (Cousinet) after Le Nain.

    | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 3043822i
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    Potosí, Peru (later Bolivia): Edmond Temple, a lady (Doña Juliana), her Andean servants and two clerics assembled for grace after dinner. Aquatint by J. Clark, 1829, after W. Hornsby.

    Hornsby, W., active 1821-1829. | Date: 1829 | Reference: 30537i
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    A meal in a refectory in Switzerland: friars ostentatiously say grace, while travellers at another table listen. Wood engraving by R. Brend'amour, 1878.

    Brend'amour, R. (Richard), 1831-1915. | Date: April 27 1878 | Reference: 2823152i
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