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  • A semi naked man with a shirt hanging off one shoulder and a condom beside him; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement from Guadalajara, Mexico. Colour lithograph, ca. 1994.
  • A father assists a boy who washes his hands from a container of water hanging from a branch: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • A father assists a boy who washes his hands from a container of water hanging from a branch: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • Écorché cadaver lying prone, with arms and head hanging down, showing the muscles of the back and shoulder. Red, black and white chalk drawing, with pencil, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Parodies of pictures at the Royal Academy: men and women eating and drinking, a soldier's boots being cleaned, a woman tending to a child and figures hanging over a line. Wood engraving.
  • A Chinese man is hanging up from a rope attached to a wooden structure and resting on a bamboo stick held by two Chinese men. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A man is led in chains before a jury while various forms of torture are enacted in the background, such as burning, hammering to death, breaking on the wheel and hanging. Woodcut.
  • Écorché cadaver resting on tilted support, seen from below, with arms hanging down, with the muscles of the trunk indicated. Red, black and white chalk drawing, with pencil, by C. Landseer, 1815.
  • A seventeenth-century German apothecary's shop with ornate pharmacy jars, large metal mortars and a stuffed turtle hanging from the ceiling; recreated for the German National Museum in Nuremberg. Photograph by Christof Müller.
  • A lute-maker testing one of the lutes in his workshop: other musical instruments are hanging on the walls, and there are tools on and around the workbench. Woodcut by Jost Amman, 1568.
  • A lute-maker testing one of the lutes in his workshop: other musical instruments are hanging on the walls, and there are tools on and around the workbench. Woodcut by Jost Amman, 1568.
  • Above, the execution of William Corder by hanging in 1828; below, William Corder's head as it appeared on the dissecting table and the iron entrance door to the scaffold. Lithograph by Bean and Mundays.
  • Algerians torturing a burglar by cutting off his right hand, hanging it around his own neck and tying him on a bull with the remaining hand. Etching with engraving by Grignion after W. Grainger.
  • A man with wings strapped to his body, a parachute attached to his head and a basket hanging by ropes from his waist, is stepping off the edge of a cliff. Wood engraving by P. Sellier.
  • A male patient is hanging by his feet from an apparatus, a large worm (?) is passing from his mouth into a bowl, assisted by a surgeon and two assistants. Process print after a woodcut, 1497.
  • A woman fast asleep with her head hanging down, a devil is sitting on her stomach and a horse peeps through a curtain; representing her nightmare. Stipple engraving by M.J. Schmidt after J.H. Füssli (Fuseli).
  • The head and a shoulders of a man with his top hair swept back, a long piece of hair hanging to the right, an ear-ring in his left ear and a high ruff. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • The head and a shoulders of a man with his top hair swept back, a long piece of hair hanging to the right, an ear-ring in his left ear and a high ruff. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • A couple sit in a slum dwelling playing a card game; the man is drinking from a tankard and washing is hanging from a line stretched across the room. Wood engraving by E. Landells after H.K. Browne.
  • Game and hunting, six separate images: two pheasants; a hare; two rabbits; four grouse (?); a snipe (?); two dogs guard a brace of dead game hanging from the branch of a tree. Etching after E.H. Landseer, 1820/1848.
  • Dead game animals and birds, lying beside a rifle: a long-beaked bird and a hare are shown hanging by their feet, with another small bird lying on the ground. Mixed method print attributed to James Ward, ca. 1794.
  • A figure with condoms as antennae and a condom hanging between his legs with a three eyed figure beyond; an advertisement in Estonian and Russian by the Estonian Association "Anti-AIDS". Colour lithograph by Willem Loigom and HR & Co, ca. 1995.
  • A man with his shirt hanging off his shoulders embraces a woman who holds a condom and flings her head back with the message "I have safe sex or no sex"; an advertisement for safe sex by the Projectgroep Publiekscampagne AIDS/SOA. Colour lithograph.
  • A cooper's workshop: two men and a boy are using knives and a spokeshave to make hoops fit around the staves of a barrel, other men outside are hammering on lids, some tools of their trade are hanging on the walls. Coloured etching.
  • A woman is having her tongue cut out by a large pair of scissors which are being operated by people turning handles, those on the left are waiting their turn with their tongues hanging out. Coloured etching by G.A. Sasso after himself.
  • A face with a tongue hanging out lit from the right with a series of smaller photographs of men and women in changing coloured borders; advertising a congress for people living with HIV and AIDS. Colour lithograph by Norbert Heuler and Detlev Pusch, 1990.
  • Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].
  • Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].
  • Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].
  • Observations on apparent death from drowning, hanging, suffocation, etc, &c. and an account of the means to be employed for recovery. To which are added the treatment proper in cases of poison, with cautions and suggestions respecting various circumstances of sudden danger / [James Curry].