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  • A desperately unhappy woman cradling her sick child. Etching by T.A. Steinlen, 1902.
  • Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1858.