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  • A Hindu ascetic hanging from hooks through his back (called "cetil"). Line engraving, 1791.
  • The three different stages of the torture of John Coustos. Etching with engraving by S.J. Neele, 1810.
  • A white angel-like figure with wings being embraced by a black demon-like creature with ears with a quote from Friedrich Dürrenmatt stating that love is a miracle but evil is never very far away; a warning about AIDS by the AIDS-Hilfe Vorarlberg. Colour lithograph by Kurt Dornig.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers by hanging them in large numbers on a tree. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers by hanging them in large numbers on a tree. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Marie-Jeanne Philipon, Madame Roland (1754-1793) Lithograph by H. Grévedon, 1825.
  • 8th self-portrait.
  • 8th self-portrait.
  • British politicians as huntsmen arriving at a river representing the Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act 1887. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 3 December 1887.
  • A Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man's head after garrotting exposed in a wooden cage hanging from a pole; his four children standing in front of it. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A public hanging in Trebizond. Wood engraving by Ch. Barbant after Th. Deyrolle.
  • In a room filled with skulls of the famous, the phrenologist Gall examines William Pitt the Younger and Gustavus IV, the King of Sweden, both currently plagued by Napoleon. Coloured etching, 1806.
  • In a room filled with skulls of the famous, the phrenologist Gall examines William Pitt the Younger and Gustavus IV, the King of Sweden, both currently plagued by Napoleon. Coloured etching, 1806.
  • Crimean War, Sebastopol: Christmas Dinner before the Battle of Sebastopol. Tinted lithograph by J.A. Vinter, 1855, after W. Simpson.
  • Crimean War, Cathcart Hill: burial ground. Process print.
  • Rev. Pat Robertson converses with Vice-President Dan Quayle with numerous speech bubbles; a protest against their policies including those relating to AIDS. Lithograph.
  • Criminal soldiers are caught in their hiding places in woods and brought to justice. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A surgeon operates on the eye of an immoral old man, while the efforts of Time and Minerva to cure his inner corruption are rebuffed. Line engraving after O. van Veen, 16--.
  • Phrenological chart; with design of head containing symbols of the phrenological faculties, and diagrams of heads showing criminal and moral propensities. Wood engraving, c. 1850, after F. Bridges and O.S. Fowler.
  • Crimean War, England: women manufacturing lint for the army. Wood engraving by W. Sheeres, 1855.
  • Manuscript belonging to one of F. Nightingale's nuns
  • Crimean War: the French cemetery. Wood engraving.
  • Surgical instruments, Crimean War
  • Crimean War: A.B. Soyer's kitchen camp. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • Crimean War, England: caricature possibly a play on class and language or corruption within the Crimean Fund Office connected with Florence Nightingale. Wood engraving by N.
  • Queen Victoria visiting soldiers wounded in the Crimean war. Mezzotint by T.O. Barlow, 1859, after Jerry Barrett.
  • Crimean War: ruins of the British soldier's graveyard. Wood engraving by R.C.H?.
  • Queen Victoria visiting soldiers wounded in the Crimean war. Mezzotint by T.O. Barlow, 1859, after Jerry Barrett.