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  • A Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • The murder of Captain Benevente, and the conspiracy and subsequent divine punishment of the culprits. Etching with engraving and letterpress.
  • Russian Nihilists tied to chairs on horse-drawn platforms being paraded past groups of soldiers on their way to their execution in St. Petersburg. Wood engraving.
  • Execution of criminals in Guinea. Etching, ca. 1763.
  • A Turkish executioner. Coloured aquatint by I.H. Clark, 1818.
  • A Chinese man preparing to be executed by decapitation: the man is shown being made to kneel on the ground, while the executioner raises his sword. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • An elephant killing an Indian criminal by stamping on his head; guards standing next to it. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker, 1875, after E. Bayard after L. Rousselet.
  • An auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition: the burning of heretics in a market place. Wood engraving by H.D. Linton after Bocourt after T. Robert-Fleury.
  • The beheading of the accomplices of the murderers of two British officers in Japan, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
  • The execution of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot in 1606 in London. Etching with engraving by C.J. Visscher.
  • The procession of Shimazu-Seiji through the streets of Yokohama to execution for murder, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
  • Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882: execution of an arsonist by a British firing squad in Alexandria. Wood engraving after F. Villiers, ca. 1882.
  • Christ presented to the people. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot.
  • A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail. Soft ground etching after Henry Alken.
  • Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882: the execution of an Egyptian fighter by a British firing squad in Alexandria. Wood engraving after M. Prior, 1882.
  • 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.
  • The beheading of Shimazu-Seiji for the murder of two British officers in Japan, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
  • Louisa Mabreé, a French midwife being executed in a cage full of cats above a fire. Coloured aquatint.
  • China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.
  • China: a man standing in a locked cage as a method of slow torture or execution. Photograph, 18--.
  • Kowloon, Hong Kong: five pirates awaiting beheading, while Chinese soldiers and dignitaries line up behind. Photograph, 1891.
  • Taiping Rebellion, China: the place in Guangzhou where people were executed. Wood engraving after W.G. Dickson, 1855.
  • Saint Sebastian. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni.
  • The decapitation of Saint John the Baptist. Etching by S. Mulinari after E. Sirani.
  • A man being tortured and executed in public. Gouache drawing.
  • Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Saint Peter is crucified upside down. Engraving by C. Tinti, 1784, after G. Reni.
  • Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist. Lithograph by J. Dickson after Cesare da Sesto.
  • Saint John the Baptist: Salome holding his severed head on a charger. Etching by F. Huot, 1787, after P. Bordone.