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  • The temporary gallows in the Old Bailey, north of Newgate. Engraving with etching.
  • The temporary gallows in the Old Bailey, north of Newgate. Engraving with etching.
  • Praying priests holding their prayer books are led to the gallows. Line engraving.
  • Execution of Bulgarians on makeshift gallows in the streets of Adrianople, Turkey. Wood engraving.
  • The mayor of Bodmin is escorted to the gallows to be hanged. Wood engraving.
  • Titus Oates is standing in the pillory while two men drive a cart with gallows past him. Mezzotint.
  • The bodies of two men and a skeleton hanging on a gallows; representing the status of the triad. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
  • Double picture: a person hanging from the gallows; a witch burning a sleeping couple while a demon figure carries off a child. Woodcut, 1790.
  • A Chinese man confined to a contraption which ties his legs on to a wooden gallows whilst pinning his head firmly to the ground. Watercolour drawing.
  • A Turkish man seated on a stool near a gallows prepares a noose inscribed "Declaration of war against the Allies". Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • A crowd of spectators wait as Tom Idle is driven in a cart with his coffin to his place of execution and the gallows. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1747.
  • A crowd of spectators wait as Tom Idle is driven in a cart with his coffin to his place of execution and the gallows. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1795.
  • Above, a cat in a priest's habit is hung on the gallows with priests laughing at the sight; below, a blindfolded man is hung and the rope breaks to release him to the ground. Etching by G. Terry.
  • Three people plucking mandrake. Gouache by Robert Bateman, 1870.
  • Three people plucking mandrake. Gouache by Robert Bateman, 1870.
  • Three people plucking mandrake. Gouache by Robert Bateman, 1870.
  • Three people plucking mandrake. Gouache by Robert Bateman, 1870.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • An anthropomorphical figure consisting of a bird's body and a human head is sitting on a branch of a tree next to a dangling noose. Coloured lithograph.
  • The crucifixion of Christ; beneath the cross are positioned the four Maries, a soldier and a horse. Coloured lithograph by F.S. Hanfstaengl after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
  • A black man in Surinam hanged at the waist; human bones lie on the ground and skulls are impaled on sticks. Engraving by W. Blake, 1792, after J.G. Stedman.
  • A fox is pleading before the lion dressed as king while an execution of a fox takes place outside. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
  • Above, a dagger is thrown in the direction of a priest on a platform; below, monks pointing at and showing signs of distress at the sight of a cat hanged in a priest's habit. Engraving with etching, 1812.
  • Florence Hensey. Line engraving.
  • Roderigo Lopez: he conspires to poison Queen Elizabeth I and is hanged. Photograph after an engraving by F. van Hulsen, 1627.
  • The spider and fly : the advertiser takes this opportunity of informing his friends and a discerning public, that he continues the trade of making drunkards, paupers, thieves, beggars, adulterers, and murderers, on the most reasonable terms, and without notice.
  • French troops loading a ship for the invasion of England. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Sir Hugh Spencer (Hugh Le Despenser) fastened to a ladder and disembowled alive in Hereford while a crowd of spectators gathers around a fire below the ladders. Coloured lithograph.