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Working Class Images, 1660-1820

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water-seller.jpg (59317 bytes) A water-seller, from 'The cryes of London' by Pierce Tempest, 1711.
1760 tithe pig.jpg (97385 bytes) 'The tythe pig', c. 1760.
'Rustic Courtship', detail from etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1785.
'Dying for love, or Captain Careless shot flying by a girl of fifteen who unexpectedly popped her head out of a casement,' by Thomas Rowlandson, 1810.

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