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The Quaker, and the Commissioners of excise
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809 · July 9, 1807
Four well-fed Commissioners, the members of a board, seated at the green baize, are cross-questioning a Quaker, represented in a suit of conventional sad-coloured apparel, and wearing the typical broad-brimmed hat. The humility of the sectarian has proved too deep for the inquisitors, whose exactions he is evading.
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