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Luke Fildes'Applicants for Admission to
a Casual Ward (1874) remains the most savage indictment of
poverty and homelessness produced by any Victorian artist;
and Frank Holl's Newgate (1878)
demonstrates the tenous hold of the poor on respectability
and the means of survival, both instantly under threat when the
breadwinner takes to crime.
Frank Holl's, (1845-88) RA;Newgate -
Committed for Trial
