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  • A girl lifts a child to see what is in the basket hanging on the wall. Engraving.
  • Dakota War of 1862 (Sioux Uprising): the mass hanging of Sioux Native Americans at Mankato. Colour lithograph, 1863.
  • Dakota War of 1862 (Sioux Uprising): the mass hanging of Sioux Native Americans at Mankato. Colour lithograph, 1863.
  • A man holding a long arrow with two puppets (?) hanging from it. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Women hanging out clothes to dry; in the foreground is an open-air cistern. Engraving by De Ligny.
  • Locksmiths working in their workshop: keys, bolts and padlocks are hanging from a line. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Children play a game with potatoes and a rag hanging from the beam. Process print after Erskine Nicol.
  • The execution of a deserter by hanging him on a branch of a tree. Line block by Albert.
  • A large balloon is hanging over the old town hall at Calais preparing for take-off. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Clean, freshly ironed clothes hanging up, and a clean body under a shower. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • Écorché cadaver lying prone, with right arm hanging down. Black and red chalk drawing, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • A woman (Kwo Pe) with a tumour hanging from her upper lip. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1839.
  • Clean, freshly ironed clothes hanging up, and a clean body under a shower. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • 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.
  • A man (Kwan Nanking) with a large pendent tumour hanging from his hip. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.
  • The execution of Suleiman Daoud by hanging in the Great Square, for ordering the burning of the city. Wood engraving.
  • The bodies of two men and a skeleton hanging on a gallows; representing the status of the triad. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
  • A girl plays with her doll by an open window where a bird cage is hanging. Wood engraving by G. Roux.
  • A public execution in a Spanish market place: three men are hanging from a gibbet after having been shot. Coloured lithograph.
  • Equinoctial ring-dial (i.e. for Northern and Southern latitudes). Signed "Cary, London" undated, circa 1800 (with original case); in hanging position.
  • The hanging of the murderers of Edward Palmer, William Gill and Harold Charrington at Zagazig, Egypt, in 1883. Wood engraving by Harrison.
  • A woman (Yang She), facing front, with a massive pendent tumour hanging down from her neck. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, 1837.
  • Saint-Malo, Brittany: women washing clothes in barrels, carrying washing in baskets and hanging items from windows. Etching by L. Lhermitte, 1881.
  • A runaway horse has upturned an apple cart and the rider is hanging on to the reins. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Persia: the bodies of three dead robbers hanging in a public hall; men standing below them. Process print after C.J. Staniland, 1896.
  • Nests of an African bird, possibly a weaver-bird, hanging from a branch of a riverside tree. Aquatint, ca. 1807, after W. Daniell.
  • A man holding a spear with two puppets (?) hanging from one end, calls out to someone. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Short hair, necklet and ear pendants of coix seeds. Lips sewn together, no threads hanging.
  • Four men sitting cross-legged outside a building with bells hanging from the roof: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.