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[John Howard.]

[John Howard.]

Engraved by Edmund Scott, from an Original Picture by Mather Brown.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple. 440 x 350mm. Narrow margins, small tear.
John Howard (1726?-90), prison reformer. Having experienced French prison in 1756 he started a campaign to improve prison conditions when he became High Sherriff of Bedfordshire in 1773. He published an influential book, 'The State of the Prisons', in 1777.
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