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  • The horse of Dick Turpin, Black Bess, dies of exhaustion after Turpin tries to escape from his pursuers. Lithograph by W. Clerk, 1839.
  • The highwayman Dick Turpin, on horseback, arrives at a tree from which two bodies have been hanged. Lithograph by W. Clerk, ca. 1839.
  • A man consuming many antidotes to the plague during the Great Plague of London. Etching by J. Franklin, 1841.
  • An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
  • A barber's shop near Lincoln's Inn, London: a man answering an advertisement for the barber's assistant points to the advertisement in The times newspaper. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
  • The giant Gog extricating the dwarf Xit from a bear in the Lions Tower at the Tower of London, watched by Queen Mary I. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.
  • The highwayman Dick Turpin, on horseback, sees a phantom riding next to him. Lithograph by W. Clerk, ca. 1839.
  • An episode in 'Rookwood', a novel by W. Harrison Ainsworth: Luke Bradley, who is threatening Eleanor Mowbray with a dagger, is himself threatened by Ranulph Rookwood with a sword, but Ranulph is suddenly restrained by Dick Turpin. Line engraving by W. Greatbach after J. Cawse, 1837.
  • An episode in 'Jack Sheppard' by W.H. Ainsworth: Owen Wood, on the river Thames in a stormy night, rescues the child Jack Sheppard. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1839.