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  • Human sacrifice among the Khonds in India: a victim (meriah) about to be dismembered. Wood engraving by C. Krull after J. Fuchs, 186-.
  • A man shielding his eyes from the body of a dead AIDS victim; advertisement a mourning procession for AIDS patients in Berlin Colour lithograph.
  • A St. Bernard dog brings an avalanche victim to a hospice in the Alps. Stipple engraving by Dibart Castel, 1820, after P.A.A. Vafflard.
  • A St. Bernard dog brings an avalanche victim to a hospice in the Alps. Stipple engraving by Dibart Castel, 1820, after P.A.A. Vafflard.
  • Various methods of torture: one victim lies in the "iron coffin of Lissa" while others are tied to the pillory or writhe in pain on the ground. Woodcut.
  • Two St. Bernard dogs with an avalanche victim, one tries to revive him while the other alerts the rescue party. Stipple engraving by T. Landseer after E. Landseer.
  • A selection of four lead mortuary crosses, placed on the body of a plague victim, found on the site of the old Grey Friars Monastery, Newgate Street, Lonodn (replicas)
  • A selection of four lead mortuary crosses, placed on the body of a plague victim, found on the site of the old Grey Friars Monastery, Newgate Street, Lonodn (replicas)
  • Two St. Bernard dogs with an avalanche victim, one tries to revive him while the other alerts the rescue party. Line engraving by J. Landseer, 1831, after E. Landseer.
  • A selection of four lead mortuary crosses, placed on the body of a plague victim, found on the site of the old Grey Friars Monastery, Newgate Street, Lonodn (replicas)
  • Various methods of torture: one victim lies in the "iron coffin of Lissa" while others are tied to the pillory or are being stoned to death in the background. Woodcut.
  • A fox-trap in the forest: a dead fox in a trap which kills by releasing weights on to the victim. Etching by M.E. Ridinger after J.E. Ridinger.
  • Three silhouette figures standing beside the open grave of an AIDS victim who falls in; a warning that AIDS leads to death by the National AIDS Programme of Guyana. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Bhandardara, India: a cart bearing the belongings of the deceased victim of an infectious disease, placed in a remote spot: a custom aimed at preventing a disease epidemic. Photograph by J.B. Greaves, 1936.
  • The sacrifice of Iphigenia or Polyxena: the victim is about to have her throat cut and her blood caught in a bowl when a god with a drawn sword appears. Etching by G. de Lairesse.
  • Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Danshichi Kurōbei having just disposed of the corpse of his victim down a well; the character is about to escape by joining a passing festival procession. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1855.
  • A ritual execution whereby a victim kneels on the ground with his hands tied at the back having a spear thrust through his left shoulder, presumably piercing the heart. Wood engraving by G.-L. Devos after E. Riou.
  • Fever, represented as a frenzied beast, stands racked in the centre of a room, while a blue monster, representing ague, ensnares his victim by the fireside; a doctor writes prescriptions to the right. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • A Ba-yanzi execution whereby the head of the victim is held in a contraption which on beheading will catapult the head in the air, leaving the rump tied to the ground. Coloured wood engraving after E.J. Glave and H. Ward.
  • Fever, represented as a frenzied beast, stands racked in the centre of a room, while a blue monster, representing ague, ensnares his victim by the fireside; a doctor writes prescriptions to the right. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • A Chinese man is lying on an horizontal pillory while two Chinese men are tying a rope around the wooden structure at its base and a third man is hammering on a pole in order to crush the victim's ankles. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Two HIV virus cells above the world bearing the words 'HIV' against a backdrop incorporating an emaciated AIDS victim, someone receiving an injection and Arabic script; an advertisement for the Kuwait Fourth International Conference on AIDS in 1994 by the KFAS, The Kuwait Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Celebrity victims of AIDS
  • Victims of leprosy. Glass positive, ca. 1919.
  • Two victims of sleeping sickness. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • Two victims are simultaneously tortured on the rack. Woodcut.
  • A dart board with condoms and the numbers 0 to 2 on the outer ring and syringes and numbers 1 to 12 on the inner ring; the centre bears two figures in suits (one white, the other black) pointing at each other on the upper section and the emaciated bodies of a black and a white AIDS victim on the lower section; an advertisement for an exhibition of images about the fight against AIDS by Artis. Colour lithograph by Chéri Samba,1990.
  • Burying the victims of the plague in 1665. Etching after S. Wale.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo administering communion to plague victims. Etching by C. Carlone.
  • RAVAD : Réseau d'assistance aux victimes d'agressions et de discriminations à raison de l'orientation sexuelle ou de l'identité de genre ...