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Robert Dighton
The poor's greatest curse, a forestaller
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plate mark: 224 x 173 mm; sheet: 245 x 194 mm
Peel 1846
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[London] : Pub. by Dighton, Charg Cross, Sepr 1800
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Print shows a "forestaller" of grain with a devil seated on his back, closing a door on a storehouse full of sacks of wheat, lettered "Wheat kept back, to rise the market"; below his feet is a demon emerging from a trapdoor labeled "The Devil's Trapdoor", and behind him at left stand a crowd of starving men, women, and children, saying "We want bread".
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