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  • Lady Jane Grey is blindfolded and led to the execution block where the executioner waits, axe in hand. Line engraving by P. Mercury after H. Delaroche.
  • Vietnam: a man in a pillory, who is being led to his execution, accompanied by his family members, his executioner (holding sword) and officials. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat, 1889, after C.-E. Hocquard.
  • Three Chinese men being subjected to torture and execution: left, the body of a recently decapitated man, centre, a man tied to a cross, right, an executioner prepars to decapitate a kneeling man. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • Execution of J. Frampton and Andrew Barton
  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
  • 'Dr. Dooreslaer' appearing with mythological figures and scenes of feasting and execution. Line engraving, c. 1650.
  • The execution of mutineers in Peshawar: men being hanged and blown from guns. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A prisoner led to his execution through a field littered with skulls and skeletons. Wood engraving.
  • Execution by sword and by hanging of men that refused to convert to Papism in Brussels. Etching.
  • The dance of death at Basel: death and the executioner. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.
  • Dance of death: death and the executioner. Coloured etching and letterpress after J.-A. Chovin after the Basel dance of death.
  • The execution of twelve mutineers at Peshawar; guards on horseback and guards holding spears; mountains in the background. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • The execution of conspirators by means of breaking them on the wheel and crucification in Lisbon in 1759. Etching with engraving.
  • Trial, confession, and execution of Courvoisier for the murder of Lord Wm. Russell : memoir of F. B. Courvoisier, Lord W. Russell's valet.
  • Afghanistan: the retinue of Shah Shoojau-Ool-Moolk, including his Chief Executioner and a Mutilator. Lithograph by L. Haghe after L.W. Hart, 1843.
  • The execution of rebels during the Rebellion in Naples and Sicily in 1647. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, with engraving by J. Aliamet, 1781.
  • Canton, China: six men suspended by the neck in locked cages in public as a method of slow torture and execution for piracy. Photograph, 18--.
  • A Chinese prisoner with bound hands and feet and head covered is slowly strangled by two executioners with rope. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • The king of Persia sitting on a horse with his entourage of officers, bodyguards, footmen and executioners around him. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • The execution of a Christian prisoner in Algeria by suspending him from a wooden frame by hooks penetrating his right arm and leg. Etching with engraving.
  • Lucrezia Cenci and Beatrice Cenci are beheaded in Rome: an executioner holds up the head of Beatrice, whose brother faints at the sight. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • 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.
  • A crowd of spectators wait as Tom Idle is driven in a cart with his coffin to his place of execution and the gallows. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1747.
  • Mass executions on a scaffold before a crowd of spectators: a group of people is hanged together from a gibbet, while others are beheaded, crucified and disembowelled. Engraving with etching, 16--.
  • Above, the execution of William Corder by hanging in 1828; below, William Corder's head as it appeared on the dissecting table and the iron entrance door to the scaffold. Lithograph by Bean and Mundays.
  • The followers of Robespierre entering the prison cell in which Loizerolles father and son are kept to take the son away for execution. Stipple engraving by G. Aliprandi after J.H. Fragonard.
  • A crowd of spectators wait as Tom Idle is driven in a cart with his coffin to his place of execution and the gallows. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1795.
  • Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother, in bed in prison in Rome, hear their mandate of execution being read by a Papal envoy accompanied by members of a confraternity of Saint John the Baptist. Etching, ca. 1850.