Coalbrooke by Night by Phillippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (1801)

In response to Malthus:

"Nature is bountiful, not mean, and leads inevitably upward towards its creator, not down into misery and penury. Those enmired in the selfishness of calculation are precisely those who create the world in which charity is undermined, social bonds are broken, urban manufactures thrive, and poverty blights the countryside." 

- William Wordsworth, from "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (1798), found in Giorgos Kallis Limits: Why Malthus was wrong and why environmentalists should care. (2019)