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  • Middlesex House of Correction: surrounded by a high wall and a fence. Engraving by Malcolm after himself, 1796.
  • A ragged looking man is standing in a prison courtyard with a piece of rope in his hand; representing scorn of material wealth by a man who has none. Coloured lithograph.
  • The criminal prisons of London, and scenes of prison life / by Henry Mayhew ... and John Binny.
  • Sarah Malcolm in Newgate Prison shortly before her execution. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • A maniacal man is visited in prison by his children, all ruined through his drinking habit. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners are sitting at benches eating and reading as a man at the top of the room watches over them. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamay.
  • The family of Jean Calas sit listening to Alexandre Lavaysse reading a letter from Calas. Engraving by J.B. Delafosse after L.C. De Carmontelle.
  • Coldbath Fields Prison, London: view from the north west to the south east, with St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Engraving, 1798.
  • A surgeon treating the back of a man who has been punished by whipping, four men stand over them in a prison cell (?) Etching by J. Amman (?).
  • Chinese prisoners with their arms outstretched begging for money from an English visitor. Wood engraving by G. Dalziel, 1894.
  • London and the River Thames seen from the south, from Westminster to Greenwich. Wood engraving by F. J. Smyth, 1845.
  • Nine male prisoners In Yemen wearing leg irons. Process print.
  • The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons and hospitals / [John Howard].
  • John Howard visiting a prisoner who is chained to the wall; the gaoler stands nearby. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1782.
  • An episode in the novel 'Paul Periwinkle': Colonel Sprightly in prison having his hair cut. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • The War in Egypt: the Calabria ship interior. Wood engraving by W.P.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in chains are working with hammers breaking stones on the side of the roadway, a guard in a jacket and trousers with a cane is watching over them from under a tree. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.
  • A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.