Artist: Richard Hook (biography)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 10" x 8" (245mm x 205mm)
Date: 1971

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Richard Hook.

Children of poor Anglo-Saxon families sold into slavery. Sheer poverty and hunger drove some to sell themselves or their children into slavery. They would at least be fed by their owner.

From Look and Learn 469 (9 January 1971).