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  • Letter: Dr Cantlie concerning Sun Yat Sen's imprisonment
  • Life imprisonment : in the battery cage / Compassion in World Farming.
  • Life imprisonment : in the battery cage / Compassion in World Farming.
  • Supporters of W.E. Gladstone, wearing 16th century armour, are being led to the Tower of London for imprisonment. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 9 April 1887.
  • Egg production : laying hens: imprisoned for life / Friends of Animals Under Abuse (FAUNA).
  • Egg production : laying hens: imprisoned for life / Friends of Animals Under Abuse (FAUNA).
  • King Charles I imprisoned in Carisbrooke castle. Engraving by G. Noble, 1800, after R. Smirke.
  • Pero breast-feeding her imprisoned father Cimon. Line engraving by C. van Caukercken after P.P. Rubens.
  • A weeping Pero, breast-feeding Cimon, her starving imprisoned father. Line engraving by J. Danzel after N.N. Coypel.
  • Perkin Warbeck imprisoned in the stocks and reading his confession before a crowd of spectators. Tinted lithograph after R. Doyle.
  • A Chinese man imprisoned with bound hands and feet is reclining on a bench. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • English families taken as hostages in the French Revolution, imprisoned in the orphanage of Arras. Engraving by P. Maxell, 1802, after T. Snagg.
  • Third Carlist War: deserters from the Spanish army imprisoned in the Alhambra, Granada, supervised in a yard by armed guards. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A Chinese woman carrying a baby on her back is feeding her husband who is imprisoned in a circular pillory. Engraving (?), ca. 1860.
  • A Chinese woman carrying a baby on her back is feeding her husband who is imprisoned in a circular pillory. Wood engraving, ca. 1850.
  • The Dreyfus case: an eagle wearing eyeglasses, representing Alfred Dreyfus, is imprisoned in a cage; men are poking him with their swords. Drawing by A.S. Boyd, ca. 1902.
  • A man in Africa sitting imprisoned on the ground, with his hands and feet locked into holes made in cut-down tree trunks. Wood engraving after P.B. Du Chaillu, 1867.
  • Beatrice Cenci, her stepmother Lucrezia, and one of her father's assassins are imprisoned and questioned by the papal authorities; Beatrice is tortured, and Lucrezia tries to persuade her to confess to the murder. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • An enthroned king, wearing three crowns and with a sword in his mouth, having vanquished a green seven headed hydra; an archangel with a key imprisons Lucifer in chains by a roaring fire; representing the culmination of the alchemical process and the sublimation of base matter. Coloured etching after an etching, ca. 17th century.
  • A man smoking a cigarette, confined in a narrow space, referring to the constraints of dependence on the habit of smoking. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.
  • A man trapped in the letters VD (venereal disease), representing untreated sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph, 195- (?).
  • A torture victim; and divination techniques. Engraving.
  • Jeremiah is released from the stocks. Etching by J. Barlow, 1812, after W.M. Craig.
  • A mentally ill patient with mask and hand restraints. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.
  • A mental ill patient in a straight jacket and strapped into a chair. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.
  • A mentally ill patient in a strait-jacket attached to the wall and a strange barrel shaped contraption around his legs. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.
  • A mental ill patient in a straight jacket and strapped into a chair. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.
  • A mentally ill patient in a strait-jacket attached to the wall and a strange barrel shaped contraption around his legs. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.
  • A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.
  • A woman with a crutch, a man in chains and a man falling on a sword; allegory of suffering and the different forms of death. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563?.