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For the stranger, the fatherless, the widow more
harvest, gleaning, people, women, wheat, borders, biblical texts
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For the stranger, the fatherless, the widow more
harvest, gleaning, people, women, wheat, borders, biblical texts
This full-page illustration is enclosed in a green and gold border with gold stalks of wheat around an engraving of a woman in old-fashioned clothing harvesting wheat. Underneath the engraving in black and gold is the biblical text that helped to inspire gleaning rights:
(p. 116)
The page oppsoite has a poem, The Reapers, from Thomson’s Seasons.
The engraving is signed B. Foster (or, B Fostery), and given the date and the publication is likely to be Myles Birket Foster.
