The workhouse and poor law in Victorian and earlier art

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• The Workhouse (1811) Stadler after Rowlandson & Pugin
• Outdoor Relief by Phiz (Halbot K. Browne)
• Blinking old men who are let out of workhouses by the hour by Edward Dalziel (illustration of Dickens)
• Scene in the Wapping Workhouse by C. S. Reinhart (illustration of Dickens)
• She turned up this young woman's face with her hand as she spoke by C. S. Reinhart (illustration of Dickens)

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