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  • An man in classical costume (Lord Strawberry), standing outside a prison, is pointing his pistol at the man kneeling at his feet amidst two corpses. Aquatint, 1811.
  • A king presiding over a massacre of infants; soldiers pour the blood of the infants into a boiling vat; probably representing the stage of 'putrefaction' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • Criminal soldiers are broken on the wheel on a scaffold in the middle of a marketplace. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Cain bends over the dead Abel; Cain flees in the background. Etching by F. Hortemels, 1729, after A. Sacchi.
  • The assassination of General Kléber in Egypt: Kléber is stabbed in the chest by a man in oriental dress outside his tent. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.
  • Cain kills Abel. Engraving by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet.
  • The massacre of the innocents. Chiaroscuro woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1745, after J. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • Soldiers pillaging a village. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Cain killing Abel. Etching.
  • Criminal soldiers are caught in their hiding places in woods and brought to justice. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The Tarakeshwar murder: Elokeshi offers a betel-leaf to the seated Mahant. Watercolour drawing.
  • An apothecary gives a dangerous medicine to a man harbouring murderous thoughts about his mother-in-law. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • A man performing a chemical procedure is approached from behind behind by another man who strangles him with a scarf. Process print by V&C after P. Chase.
  • Cain kills Abel under a stormy sky. Wood engraving by H. Pisan after G. Dore.
  • Soldiers attacking a coach on a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A destitute girl throws herself from a bridge, her life ruined by alcoholism. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848.
  • A Chinese man with a knife trying to kill a young sailor on a ship. Drawing by W. E. Wigfull, 1908.
  • A drunken man is arrested for killing his wife. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • Cain violently kills Abel. Engraving by Jan Muller after Cornelis van Harlem.
  • God appears at Babel to disperse the people into different tongues. Process print, 1894, after W. von Kaulbach.
  • Judith with a sword holding the head of Holofernes. Coloured lithograph by F. Hanfstaengel after A. Varotari, il Padovanino.
  • A man holding an oil lamp and a dagger is standing next to a woman asleep in a canopied bed; Gothic window in the background. Coloured mezzotint, ca. 1800.
  • The massacre of the innocents. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni.
  • Cain slaying Abel. Etching by V. Lefebvre after Titian.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers by hanging them in large numbers on a tree. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Richard Patch, hanged for murder. Line engraving, 1813.
  • The burning of criminal soldiers on the stake. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A destitute girl throws herself from a bridge, her life ruined by alcoholism. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Edme-Samuel Castaing, the poisoner, and his two victims: Auguste and Hippolite Ballet. Engraving.
  • Sebald de Weert is killed in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, by officers of the King of Kandy, 1603. Engraving.