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Rural poor

Poverty in rural areas, which are often less developed than urban areas worldwide

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  • A man with a wooden leg collecting brushwood in a wicker basket slung over his shoulder. Pen and wash drawing.
  • A miser and usurer holding a money-bag is accosted by a poor man on crutches. Woodcut by J. Amman, c. 1568.
  • A man in ragged clothes pushing a woman sitting in a wheelbarrow. Etching with engraving by W.Y. Ottley after the Monogrammatist bxg.
  • A farm worker has fallen among the corn owing to starvation, and has dropped his scythe and barrel; another worker is also about to faint. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after P.J. de Loutherbourg after himself.
  • A farmer is watching a poor girl who is picking up small ears of corn; in the background is an expensive country house. Engraving by J.M. Delatre, 1788, after J.H. Ramberg.
  • A woman in fine clothes riding a horse gives a coin to a poor family on a country road tin a mountainous region of England. Etching by F. Bartolozzi and T. Morris after J.J. Barralet.
  • 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.
  • A bearded lame man walking with the aid of two crutches begging for alms with his hat. Engraving with etching.

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