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  • The month October and the sign of Scorpio, represented by the vintage and by the parable of the unjust husbandmen. Engraving by A. Collaert after H. Bol, 1585.
  • A prostitute gives evidence to a magistrate: she points towards Tom Idle dividing loot with his accomplice, as a corpse is being disposed of through a trapdoor. Engraving by Thomas Cook, 1795, after William Hogarth.
  • Judith with Holofernes' head; her maid behind her. Line engraving after C. Allori.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers on a scaffold-like contraption called "Strappado". Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Execution of the William Burke