The Demon Butcher, or the Real Rinderpest
J T *
Genre: | Illustration, Drollery |
Relevant illustrations: | wdct. |
Illustrators: | J T * |
Subjects: | Animal Husbandry, Disease, Nutrition, Commerce |
Shows a wealthy and obese butcher standing in his shop, his hair sticking up in the shape of devil's horns. Before him stands a small woman who, shocked at the butcher's mockery of her request for beef at fourteen pence a pound, drops her key and basket. |
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