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Market Reports - English Country Squire carves the beef

Market Reports illustrated (Postcard series):
MEAT: "English beef was in fine condition."
This report on English beef (as a commodity traded on the Stock Exchange) is illustrated by a ruddy and rotund Eglish Country Squire taking great delight in the serving of probably the largest joint of beef you can imagine! Thankfully it does not appear it is all destined for his luncheon as there are other plates to be filled...!
1903

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Anger (Ira), from the series of the The Seven Deadly Sins , engraved

XJF175730 Anger (Ira), from the series of the " The Seven Deadly Sins", engraved by Pieter van der Heyden (c.1530-72) and published by Hieronymus Cock (c.1510-70), 1558 (engraving) by Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (c.1525-69) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Latin quotation is taken from Ovid's Ars Amatoria; iii, 503: "Ora tument ira, nigrescunt sanguine venae" ("Their faces swell, their veins grow black with rage"); ); Flemish, out of copyright

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The town rat and the field rat. Fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95)

XEE4179921 The town rat and the field rat. Fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95).Illustration of the end of the 19th century. by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The town rat and the field rat. Fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95).Illustration of the end of the 19th century.); Stefano Bianchetti; French, out of copyright

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