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  • The levels of hell depicted as circular stone tiers; purgatory lies outside its walls. Engraving.
  • A blood droplet containing an illustration of a wounded patient in bandages lying in a hospital bed receiving a blood transfusion; surrounded by images of war-torn villages and violence; an anti-AIDS advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • God appears at Babel to disperse the people into different tongues. Process print, 1894, after W. von Kaulbach.
  • The massacre of the innocents. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni.
  • North Africa (?): a black man is pinned to the ground by a Turk (?) who treads on his neck, while two other black men beat him with sticks. Wood engraving by C. Laplante, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Two men fighting while animals sit in pairs placidly watching; an allegory of man's ability to fight his own kind. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
  • A woman being stabbed while the blood pouring from her wounds is drunk by a group of men; representing Britannia's resources being drained by politicians. Engraving, 1768.
  • Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum: panoramic view. Wood engraving, 1867.