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Rural poor

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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.
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Catalogue

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    Malnourished children of the rural poor : the web of food, health, education, fertility, and agricultural production / Judith B. Balderston, Alan B. Wilson, Maria E. Freire, Mari S. Simonen of the Berkeley Project on Educatioon and Nutrition ; with forewords by Charles S. Benson, Sheldon Margen.

    | Date: [1981]
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    A bearded lame man walking with the aid of two crutches begging for alms with his hat. Engraving with etching.

    | Reference: 43850i
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    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.

    Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812. | Date: Feby. 1 1803 | Reference: 30059i
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    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.

    Barralet, John James, approximately 1747-1815. | Date: Jan.1 1795 | Reference: 31944i
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    Making services work for poor people.

    | Date: [2003], ©2003
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