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  • 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.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled to Bournemouth to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, simulates illness to avoid extradition to France. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • 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.
  • Clocks: various springs, escapements, and correction mechanisms. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
  • One boy is caught by an irate farmer while stealing his apples from the orchard and another has the seat of his trousers ripped by a dog as he tries to escape over the fence. Colour wood engraving.
  • A young woman and a young man rejoice as they escape from King Kong; representing attainment of freedom from AIDS and heroin addiction. Colour lithograph for the Commissione Nazionale per la lotta contro l'AIDS, Ministero della Sanità, ca. 1995.
  • A gloved hand holding up a bird cage inscribed 'Blood bank' containing the HIV virus cell with the warning 'No escape for AIDS'; an advertisement issued by Ortho Diagnostic Systems, a division of Johnson & Johnson Limited. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • Clocks: an escapement mechanism (top), and a pendulum (below). Engraving by E. Kennion after C. Varley.
  • The Panama Canal: to determine whether he was fit to be extradited, two eminent physicians examine the stools of Dr Cornelius Herz, who had fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, lies in bed as a physician takes his pulse to determine whether he is seriously ill. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • An episode in Juvenal's satire XII: in thanks for the escape of their mutual friend Catullus from a shipwreck, Juvenal shows to Corvinus a votive painting depicting Catullus's survival, while putti prepare to sacrifice animals as thank-offerings to the gods. Etching by W. Hollar after R. Streater.
  • Above, Algerians executing a Christian slave for attempting to escape by suspending him on hooks through hands and feet in a wooden frame; below, Algerians torturing a burglar by cutting off his hand, hanging it around his neck and tying him on a bull. Engraving by C. Grignion after W. Grainger.
  • An angry looking face attempts to escape from the middle of the green silhouette of a man shouting "AIDS mich nicht an!" (AIDS won't get me!); a yellow illustration of a male and female running against a cityscape appears repeatedly across the background; an advertisement for a mobile Theatre Project in support of AIDS on behalf of the Ministry of Labor, Düsseldorf. Colour lithograph.
  • A device which could be used for escaping from a fire. Etching G. Gladwin after C. Varley.
  • A ragged man sitting huddled in a cube prison cell bearing the words 'SIDA' with a rat on the opposite side as a man beneath attempts to drill an escape hole in the floor; an advertisement for AIDS week in prisons from 11th to 13th December 1989 by the Comisiones Ciudadanas Anti-SIDA de Alava, Bizkaia, Guipúzcoa y Navarra and the Federación de Comités y Comisiones Ciudadanas Anti-SIDA del Estado Español. Colour lithograph by Hdez. Landazabal, 1989.
  • An omnibus full of distraught women due to leeches having escaped from their broken jar. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
  • A hunting dog is chasing a duck in the water which escaped from his mouth. Etching by E. Hacker after R. Ansdell.
  • Battle of Gravelines, second stage when the English ships had enchored and were firing to prevent the French escaping along the shore.
  • Olimpio Calvetti, having escaped in disguise after the killing of Count Francesco Cenci, is recognized by friends of the Count. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • Left, a man convicted of heresy in the Spanish Inquisition; right, a nun that escaped being burned at the stake by recanting. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • "The lion is coming": crowds at a fair panicking at the rumour that a lion has escaped; representing panic among crowds. Lithograph after K.R. Reinhardt, ca. 1860.
  • Sir James Edward Smith: portrait (above) and vignette (below) of his ship escaping from Sweden loaded with the Linnaean collections. Stipple and line engraving by W. Ridley, 1800, after J. Russell.
  • Sir James Edward Smith: portrait (above) and vignette (below) of his ship escaping from Sweden loaded with the Linnaean collections. Stipple and line engraving by W. Ridley, 1800, after J. Russell.
  • Two boys have caught a cuttlefish and brought it home for their aquarium. The women are shocked, some crabs have escaped from a bucket, one is attacking the dog. Wood engraving by P. Swain.
  • A family scene where a mouse seems to have escaped from a type of trap and is being pursued by a child with a broom and a dog. Aquatint by D. Landini after J. Burnet.
  • A man is standing on the banks of a river with a broken fishing line and an escaping fish; he then appears from out of the water with the fish in his arms. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • A man shoots at a lark that has escaped from its cage on the street: the woman who owns it watches in horror from an upstairs window, while another man watches from the side of the house. Etching, 183-(?).
  • Ornithogalum umbellatum L. Hyacinthaceae Star of Bethlehem, Grass lily. Distribution: Central Europe, SW Asia, NW Africa. All parts are poisonous, especially the bulbs. The toxin is a cardiac glycoside with effects similar to digoxin, vomiting, cardiac irregularities and death in humans and livestock. Only used for decoration by Native Americans (it is a non-native plant that has escaped into the wild from cultivation) and called Sleepydick (Moerman, 1998). One of its toxins is Convallotoxin, also present in Lily of the Valley, Convallaria majalis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Saint Peter: an angel releases him from prison. Colour lithograph by C. Mariannecci, 1862, after Filippino Lippi.
  • An episode in Baldo by Teofilo Folengo (Merlin Cocai): a centaur releases Falchetto and his companions from a cave, while Cingar ties Muselina to a tree and whips her with branches. Etching.