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  • A woman school-teacher sitting on a chair with birches in her hand as a small boy stands in front of her and another child holding a book looks on. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after T. Webster.
  • A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving after E. van Heemskerck.
  • A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving by W.H. Toms after E. van Heemskerck.
  • A boy is caught by a shopkeeper and threatened with a stick as punishment for breaking a window. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • Play safe play sexy : fantasies / fetishes / produced by Gay Health Network Ireland.
  • Play safe play sexy : fantasies / fetishes / produced by Gay Health Network Ireland.
  • Newgate Prison, London: a man's shirt is being laid over his shoulders by a prison warder after he has been flogged by a man with a cat o'nine tails. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Halftone after P.H. Calderon.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..
  • Joe Huggins, condemned for throttling an old gentleman, is stripped to the waist and kneeling before policemen pleading for mercy while the executioner is rolling up the sleeves of his shirt to begin with the flogging. Wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel, 1872.