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  • Type of guillotine(?)
  • The head of King Louis XVI being cut off by a guillotine. Etching by James Gillray, 1793.
  • Prisoners in the French Revolution awaiting the summons to the guillotine. Engraving by Masson after Charles Muller.
  • Prisoners are driven on a cart to the guillotine. Etching by J. Somerville after D.A.M. Raffet.
  • Tonsillectomy : by means of the alveolar eminence of the mandible and a guillotine with a review of the collateral issues / by Greenfield Sluder.
  • Tonsillectomy : by means of the alveolar eminence of the mandible and a guillotine with a review of the collateral issues / by Greenfield Sluder.
  • Tonsillectomy : by means of the alveolar eminence of the mandible and a guillotine with a review of the collateral issues / by Greenfield Sluder.
  • Tonsillectomy : by means of the alveolar eminence of the mandible and a guillotine with a review of the collateral issues / by Greenfield Sluder.
  • Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, kneeling before the guillotine next to her confessor on the day of her execution, 16 October 1793. Line engraving with etching, 1815.
  • Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, kneeling before the guillotine next to her confessor on the day of her execution, 16 October 1793. Line engraving with etching, 1815.
  • Joseph Ignace Guillotin. Stipple engraving.
  • Joseph Ignace Guillotin. Line engraving.
  • Joseph Ignace Guillotin. Coloured stipple engraving.
  • Guillotin, Motion pour l'etablissement d'un comite de sante
  • Joseph Ignace Guillotin. Line engraving by B. L. Prévost after J. M. Moreau, 1785.
  • Joseph Ignace Guillotin. Line engraving by B. L. Prévost after J. M. Moreau, 1785.
  • Joseph Ignace Guillotin. Line engraving by Voyez, junior after J . M. Moreau, 1785 [?].
  • Joseph Ignace Guillotin. Line engraving by Voyez, junior after J . M. Moreau, 1785 [?].
  • Avis : le public est prévenu que l'Hospice Central de l'Inoculation de la Vaccine est ouvert à tous les pères et mères qui voudront y faire admettre leurs enfans / Les membres du Comité, Thouret, Président; Leroux, Guillotin, Pinel, Parfait, Delaroche, Salmade, Doussin-Dubreuil, Jadelot, Lasteyrie, Marin, Mongenot, et Husson, secrétaire.
  • King Louis XVI of France bids his farewell to the people of Paris while ascending the stairs to the scaffold where he was guillotined on the 21 January 1793. Aquatint with engraving by C. Silanio after C. Benazech, 1793.
  • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1812, after J. L. David.
  • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1812, after J. L. David.
  • Inventions: various illustrations taken from mediaeval or later manuscripts. Process print, 1905.
  • A rowdy dinner of British political radicals at John Horne Tooke's house in Wimbledon: Tooke and Burdett wear bonnets rouges. Coloured etching by Thomaso Scrutiny (Samuel De Wilde?), 1808.
  • A Chinese woman sentenced to have her feet cut off is carried to the torturer; the judge is seated behind a desk. Wood engraving by L. Dumont, 1864, after L. Janet-Langer.
  • Nicolas Luckner, Baron Luckner. Lithograph by Nicolas-Eustache Maurin.
  • The liberation of a manacled prisoner during the taking of the Bastille on the 14 July 1789. Line engraving with etching.
  • The storming of the Bastille on the 14 July 1789. Line engraving with etching after H. Singleton.
  • Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734-1793) Lithograph by Henri-Joseph Hesse.
  • The dance of death: Death appears to the people in the inn and instigates them, the proletariat, to clear the throne to make way for communism. Drawing by or after E. Ille.