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  • A lady ordering the burning of a bishop. Etching.
  • A burning torch representing Hale's life tonic. Process print.
  • Bombay (Mumbai): a body burning on a funeral pyre. Photograph.
  • A receptacle for burning coal to heat cautery instruments. Engraving.
  • A receptacle for burning coal to heat cautery instruments. Engraving.
  • Chemistry: a tracking burning-glass and details. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • The Virgin with Christ Child, both holding their burning hearts. Woodcut.
  • A burning building seen from the water at night. Gouache drawing.
  • A burning cigarette, of which the ash at the burning end turns into people carrying the coffin of a smoker. Colour lithograph after V. Volkov and A. Marchenko, 1988.
  • Martyrdom of Saint Joan of Arc (?): burning at the stake. Woodcut.
  • Ditch, two months after grass burning; Panama Canal construction work. Photograph, 1910.
  • A mass-execution where men are hung above a burning bonfire. Etching.
  • A woman diviner burning incense. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • A hot-air balloon in flight with a fire burning. Coloured engraving.
  • A burning ghat, Kolkata, India: mourners by the funeral pyre. Photograph, ca. 1890.
  • Chemistry: burning-glasses and a glass-polishing machine. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1799.
  • The burning of criminal soldiers on the stake. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The torments of hell in Buddhism: two bearded demons burning six men alive. Lithograph.
  • Chemistry: two types of burning-glass, and a glass-polishing machine. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Saint Florian: he extnguishes a fire by pouring water on a burning house. Coloured engraving.
  • Chemistry: a piece of steel wire burning in oxygen inside a glass jar. Mezzotint, 1809.
  • Three demons (?) torturing three men with spikes and burning them alive. Lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • Three Hindu ascetics walking on burning embers. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore).
  • Chemistry: burning glasses, and various vessels for distillation. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A garrotted man in a dungeon next to a burning candle. Etching by F. de Goya y Lucientes.
  • A cigarette pointing to a burning building, representing the fire hazard of smoking. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.
  • A candle burning at both ends representing the effect of AIDS. Colour silk screen print after A. Jaar, 1993.
  • Saint Barbara: she holds a burning heart before the Christ Child held by the Virgin. Engraving by G. Huret.
  • A man with a burning torchlight is guiding two people down the kerb and across the road. Coloured etching.
  • The Houses of Parliament burning and people are rushing to see the fire. Lithograph by W. Newman after himself.