A rich miser listens with an ear trumpet to a poor soldier in a Georgian parlour. Misanthrope Sir Simon and his brave crippled brother RIchard. Rich and Poor. Handcoloured wood engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from W. H. Harrison’s The Humourist, a Companion for the Christmas Fireside, Rudolph Ackermann, 19 Strand, London, 1831.

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