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  • A whip seller holding his whips. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A whip sellers's wife holding some whips. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths with drums, whips, etc: a mounted policeman moves through the throng. Wood engraving.
  • India: a man smoking a hookah whips a bullock who is drawing him on a platform around a milling wheel. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Sêrro do Frio, Minas Gerais, Brazil: slaves washing soil for diamonds, supervised by men with whips. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, 1821, after J. Mawe.
  • A black woman in Surinam tied to a tree by her wrists as men walk towards her with whips in their hands. Engraving by W. Blake after J.G. Stedman.
  • An episode in Baldo by Teofilo Folengo (Merlin Cocai): a centaur releases Falchetto and his companions from a cave, while Cingar ties Muselina to a tree and whips her with branches. Etching.
  • A cart laden with coins in sacks is dragged by a group of devils who are lashed by men armed with whips; representing William Wood's scheme to improve the Irish coinage. Engraving, 1724.
  • A white man (Johnny Newcome) sits on a beach in the West Indies: he is having a sunshade held over him while he whips a black man who is on his knees. Coloured etching by W. Elmes, 1812.
  • Temple sculpture: a half-length figure holding a whip. Pencil drawing.
  • A nun wearing purple robes kneeling in a gothic church and being whipped with a red whip. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A nun wearing purple robes kneeling in a gothic church and being whipped with a red whip. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Rajamannar holding a whip and a horn. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A man on horseback with a guiding rein and whip. Etching by H. Bunbury.
  • Xanthippe rides on the back of Socrates with a whip in her hand. Mezzotint by J. Smith after HG.
  • A woman undresses as a man wearing a monk's habit stands nearby with a whip in his hand. Etching.
  • Above, a dog from the arctic highlands; below, a sledge, a whip and a knife. Etching by S. Hall.
  • A woman riding a horse uses a bottle of China-Rossi tonic as a whip. Colour lithograph by RB (?), 19--.
  • Wheel for raising water at Valparaiso being driven by dogs, a seated man on the right cracks his whip. Wood engraving.
  • Robert Coates wearing a frock coat and riding-boots has a whip in his hand and a cockerel on his head. Coloured etching.
  • A well-dressed man on horseback gallops alongside two horses drawing a coach, raising his whip. Lithograph attributed to A. Girardin, ca. 1850.
  • One cobra and four colubrid snakes, including possibly an oriental whip snake and the primitive worm-like species, Leptotyphlops humilis. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Wheel for raising water in Valparaiso being driven by dogs, a seated man on the right cracks his whip. Pen and ink drawing by L. Levison.
  • A coachman with a riding whip stands in front of a carriage, raises his hat, and offers a ride to Charenton. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal.
  • A Chinese man seated with his neck fastened in a cangue or pillory; a whip at his feet and houses in the background. Aquatint by W. Alexander, 1814.
  • Two men are standing together with a boy, one of the men has a whip in his hand and the other is pointing towards the boy . Colour lithograph.
  • Tom Jones and Sophia Western are seated together on a sofa as Squire Western enters the room with a riding whip. Stipple engraving by Peter Simon after J. Downman.
  • Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, with a whip in one hand and a letter in the other, mounted on an ass with a human head. Etching with engraving, 1745.
  • A white woman is being forced to work a treadmill as a black woman makes a derisory gesture and a white man with a whip watches over. Coloured aquatint.
  • A coachman with a whip and a woman with a kettle: the man mistrusts anything using steam (implying steam trains). Pencil and ink wash by S. Jenner, ca. 1830.