The Demon Butcher, or the Real Rinderpest Roger Niger Christ's Hospital from the cloisters

Christ's Hospital from the cloisters

but was destroyed by fire in 1856

horses and a carriage in the foreground

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King William III entering London

The Demon Butcher, or the Real Rinderpest Roger Niger Christ's Hospital from the cloisters'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