Illustration design for "The Economy of Human Life"

Frank Howard British
 Related author Robert Dodsley British

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A man on horseback offers his cloak to a poor man seated on the ground. One One of a group of twelve book illustration designs reproduced as an engraving in an 1834 edition of Robert Dodsley's "The Economy of Human Life," published in London John van Voorst. The image illustrates the text: "Give thy raiment to the naked, and thy food unto the hungry, so shall thou be praised and shall feel that thou deservest it."

Illustration design for "The Economy of Human Life", Frank Howard (British, London 1805–1866 Liverpool), Watercolor

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