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  • A prisoner is sitting on straw in a cave with his feet chained to the wall, there are a few provisions on a small shelf in the rock. Etching by R. Blyth after J.H. Mortimer.
  • Plague in Cape Town: convicts cleansing and disinfecting infected buildings. Drawing by H. Johnson, 1891.
  • Turkish prisoners sitting in a cell with a barred window; two of them are racing cockroaches. Process print by Meisenbach after H. Lanos after W.T. Maud.
  • Men and women are prisoners in cells, one man is being tortured by having the soles of his feet beaten with a stick. Wood engraving after G. Durand.
  • Rangoon, Burma: prisoners working a treadmill in jail. Photograph by Watts & Skeen, 189-.
  • Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.
  • Thirteen male prisoners in India or Burma ("dacoits", bandits) wearing chains around their necks and ankles. Process print.
  • W.E. Gladstone and other Liberal politicians as prisoners being released from prison; relatives and friends waiting for them at the gate. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 18 December 1886.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: (left) prisoners are walking in a long file leaving spoons in a bowl as they go past; (right) prisoners stand in line to receive a loaf of bread. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer, 1876, after F. Régamay.
  • Franco-Prussian War: Civil unrest in Paris. Wood engraving.
  • Elizabeth Hartley playing the role of Lady Jane Grey. Engraving by C. Sherwin after himself.
  • Ugolino, his sons and grandsons in a cell facing death by starvation. Engraving by A. Raimbach after Sir J. Reynolds.
  • Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire: a young man with long moustaches, prisoner number 13821, his eyes are closed and he is held in a restraint-chair by his wrists and neck; head and shoulders. Photograph, c. 1869.
  • The Holy Trinity and an angel with captives, receiving intercessions from Saint John of Matha and Saint Felix of Valois representing the Trinitarian Order. Engraving by Castellus (G. Chasteau?).
  • Five prisoners in Persia walking around a yard bound together by chains, a guard with a sword walks nearby. Process print by C. Hentschel after F. Dadd.
  • A man of Simla, standing in a prison with manacles around his ankles. Watercolour by R. Clint, 1866.
  • Wormwood Scrubs prison, London: four cooks in prison uniform standing in a line in front of buckets and baskets. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
  • A man of Simla, squatting in a prison with manacles around his ankles. Watercolour by R. Clint, 1866.
  • Wakefield Prison, Yorkshire: an elderly man, struggling against the restraint-chair in which he is held by his wrists and neck. Photograph, ca. 1869.
  • A Dacian captive. Etching by F. Perrier.
  • A Chinese woman carrying a baby on her back is feeding her husband who is imprisoned in a circular pillory. Engraving (?), ca. 1860.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald.
  • A Persian captive lying on the road chained by his neck to a post embedded in the road. Wood engraving.
  • Saint Leonard. Etching.
  • A young man being visited in a prison cell by two men bringing bail. Etching after J.P. Fletcher.
  • A man in Africa standing and another sitting on the ground, both have chains around their necks and ankles. Process print after L. Rousseau.
  • A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by earlier frivolity. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.
  • Men and women are gathered outside a prison in Cairo as prisoners look out from behind the bars, and a child stands on ledge to look through the window. Wood engraving after J.C. Horsley, 1876.
  • Boer War: a wounded Boer General prisoner being taken off the ship at Cape Town. Process print after F. de Haenen after Fyne.