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Four people are suspended in a basket over a table of diners. Engraving.
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Four people are suspended in a basket over a table of diners. Engraving.

Unknown artist

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Lettering: Engraved for Middleton's Complete System of Geography. Method of punishing the idle in the poor house at Hamburgh, by suspending them in a basket over the table where the more industrious are at meals

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