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  • A mass-execution where men are hung above a burning bonfire. Etching.
  • The execution of Suleiman Daoud by hanging in the Great Square, for ordering the burning of the city. Wood engraving.
  • An auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition and the execution of sentences by burning heretics on the stake in a market place. Engraving by B. Picart.
  • Martyrdom of two male saints by burning at the stake with a martyred female. Etching by Ferrari [Cesare Ferreri?] after himself.
  • Martyrdom of Saint Joan of Arc (?): burning at the stake. Woodcut.
  • The burning of Sir John Cobham, Lord Oldcastle, a Lollard and follower of John Wycliffe, in London in 1417. Wood engraving.
  • A Christian man being burned at the stake in Japan; a crowd watching. Wood engraving by J. Gauchard after A. Feyen-Perrin.
  • A man tied to a burning stake is pulling at his chains while clerics hold their crucifixes towards him and soldiers in full armour stand around the fire. Engraving by P.S. van Gunst after O. Elliger.
  • A Roman soldier is ordering the burning of the druids who are tied to a stake. Etching by F.A. David after C. Monnet.
  • A graveyard at night with an owl perched on a branch. Reproduction of a wood engraving by Robert Paterson, 18--.