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  • An eagle catching one hare while another escapes. Colour etching by G. Demarteau, ca. 1760, after C. Dagomer.
  • A fox is pursued by two dogs while a cat escapes by climbing a tree. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
  • The death of Orpheus: Orpheus is seen defending himself on one knee against the Thracian women, who assault him with clubs, while a child escapes to the left. Heliogravure after an engraving.
  • Squanderfield fatally wounded by a rapier leans back as his wife kneels before him; Silvertongue in his nightgown hastily escapes through a window. Engraving by Simon François Ravenet after William Hogarth, 1745.
  • The Panama Canal: having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, Dr Cornelius Herz escapes extradition on the ground that he has a terminal illness, and lives happily in Bournemouth for fifteen years. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • Illustration; The Escape
  • A woman trying to escape a triton. Etching by J. Goupy after S. Rosa.
  • A young dancer trying to escape winged figures with men's heads. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A young dancer trying to escape winged figures with men's heads. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Lot and his family escape from collapsing Sodom; his wife looks back at the destruction. Engraving.
  • A boy is climbing over the wall to escape from the man with a stick. Coloured lithograph.
  • A fire in the Livingston County Poorhouse, Geneseo, New York: mentally ill women try to escape. Wood engraving, 1867.
  • Two divs in golden chains (demons) trying to escape from a well. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, possibly Indian.
  • Tiger hunting in India: men riding elephants shoot at a tiger that tries to escape by swimming across a river. Watercolour, 18--.
  • The horse of Dick Turpin, Black Bess, dies of exhaustion after Turpin tries to escape from his pursuers. Lithograph by W. Clerk, 1839.
  • A knight and his lover astride a horse try to escape ghostly figures of Death. Engraving by Harding after Lady Diana Beauclerk, 1796.
  • As a fire rages in a house people are being helped to escape by means of chutes extended from the windows to the ground. Etching.
  • A giant hand roaming through the dark streets of London, people and rats try to escape its grasp; representing bubonic plague. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Imagine no fresh air. No space. No escape : That's "life" for a battery chicken : chicken out! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • An American soldier running to escape a thunderbolt in the form of the letters VD, representing venereal disease. Colour lithograph by F.O. Schiffers, 1946.
  • Imagine no fresh air. No space. No escape : That's "life" for a battery chicken : chicken out! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • A group of boys with a flag and weapons take hold of one boy who is attempting to escape. Lithograph by Thomas Fairland after Robert Farrier.
  • A frightened horse leaps through a cascading stream to escape from two wolves (?), within a border depicting mermaids, fish and other aquatic creatures. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • A man is trying to escape up a tree as the fish he has caught is writhing around on the bank of the river. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • A tumultuous hunting scene in which a stag is hunted into the river and speared, and a wild boar is shot while trying to escape from the hounds. Etching by A. Tempesta.
  • Aeneas carrying his father Anchises on his shoulders holding the household gods, as they escape from the sack of Troy. Colour relief etching by Elisha Kirkall, 1722, after Ugo da Carpi, 1518, after Raphael.
  • Aeneas carrying his father Anchises on his shoulders holding the household gods, as they escape from the sack of Troy. Colour relief etching by Elisha Kirkall, 1722, after Ugo da Carpi, 1518, after Raphael.
  • A Chinese prisoner who has tried to escape is lying on the ground while a man wearing a red jacket is cutting his ankles with a sword. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Clocks: an escapement mechanism. Engraving by W. Kelsall after J. Clement.
  • Surgery: surgical instruments including a small tube for inserting into the body to allow fluid to enter or escape (cannulla) and a surgical scalpel (bistoury) Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.