The Demon Butcher, or the Real Rinderpest Product:Greetings card Sir Thomas More and Catherine

Sir Thomas More and Catherine Howard

Henry VII founded a hospital for the poor on the site

23rd January 1973

Original is oil on canvas 172

The Demon Butcher, or the Real Rinderpest Product:Greetings card Sir Thomas More and Catherine'The Demon Butcher, or the Real Rinderpest', 1865. The demon butcher, with his hair styled into the shape of horns, stands in front of the animal carcasses declaring the price of beef. His customer is so startled she drops her basket and key. Next to the butcher is a pile of money. Earlier in the year, there had been an outbreak of Cattle Plague, or Rinderpest. It had started in the dairies of Lambeth and Islington and had spread rapidly despite all