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  • The execution of Suleiman Daoud by hanging in the Great Square, for ordering the burning of the city. Wood engraving.
  • A procession to St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, and the burning of Protestant books in Cambridge marketplace. Etching by G. Terry.
  • A crowd preparing for a suttee, or widow-burning: beside the Ganges (?) River. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • An angel with the instruments of the Passion and a burning skull. Engraving by B. a Bolswert after A. Bloemaert.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.
  • The burning of Sir John Cobham, Lord Oldcastle, a Lollard and follower of John Wycliffe, in London in 1417. Wood engraving.
  • Martyrdom of two male saints by burning at the stake with a martyred female. Etching by Ferrari [Cesare Ferreri?] after himself.
  • The burning of Louisa Mabree, the French midwife in a cage filled with black cats suspended over a blazing fire. Aquatint.
  • Above, the martyrs Cicely Ormes and Margaret Thurston are burnt back to back at the stake in Colchester and the burning at a stake in Islington of the martyrs Ralph Alderton, Margery Austoo and R. Roth; below the burning of the martyr Cicely Ormes in Norwich. Etching by G. Terry.
  • A recumbent Chinese man surrounded by women in prayer and other attendants burning incense etc. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Noah burning offerings on an altar after the end of the deluge. Colour lithograph by L. Gruner after N. Consoni after Raphael.
  • The rescue of the young John Wesley from the burning parsonage at Epworth, Lincolnshire. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds after H.P. Parker.
  • A Roman soldier is ordering the burning of the druids who are tied to a stake. Etching by F.A. David after C. Monnet.
  • Double picture: a person hanging from the gallows; a witch burning a sleeping couple while a demon figure carries off a child. Woodcut, 1790.
  • An ornate garden obelisk decorated with flaming urns and figures with burning torches. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • Fishermen with a drag-net, burning kelp on the beach, and hooks and other equipment. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Two men burning a man alive; three men cutting a man's limbs; a man about to cut a man's head with an axe. Lithograph.
  • An ornate vase and pedestal with crowds round a burning building carved on the side. Etching by J. Schynvoet, c. 1701, after S. Schynvoet.
  • A hand holding a burning cigarette by an ashtray; representing smoking as a cause of heart disease. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Hartstichting, ca. 2001.
  • John Glaisyer a Quaker anointing a dog with burning vitriol oil; implying a satirical attack on the Quaker movement. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A gouty man drinking wine and playing the cello; the pain is represented by a devil burning his knee. Etching, 1785, after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A group of blindfolded people are kneeling down being hit with burning bundles of brushwood and about to be killed with a sword. Line engraving.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A Chinese man is held on the ground by a man while another is burning his eyes with lime. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Prince Genji and a girl by a garden pond at night, standing next to a flare burning on a stand. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1857.
  • A self-indulgent man afflicted with gout: the pain is represented by a demon burning his foot. Coloured lithograph by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after Captain Hehl.
  • 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.