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  • Millbank penitentiary, London. Engraving by J. Tingle after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Newgate Prison, London: visitors talking to prisoners through a grill. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1873, after M. Fitzgerald.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald.
  • The Fleet Prison, London: the courtyard, with prisoners playing racquets while others stand and talk. Wood engraving by Fleming after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners are sitting in a room sewing large pieces of cloth. Wood engraving by H.H. after M. Fitzgerald.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners sitting on long benches untangling bundles of twine (picking oakum); a guard raises his hand. Wood engraving. after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.
  • Newgate Gaol in the City of London: a long building with arches at the entrance and many windows. Engraving.
  • The criminal prisons of London, and scenes of prison life / by Henry Mayhew ... and John Binny.
  • An episode in the novel 'Paul Periwinkle': Colonel Sprightly in prison having his hair cut. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London: a prisoner in the chain-room where manacles are stored: he is cleaning them. Process print after Paul Renouard.
  • Coldbath Fields Prison, London: view from the north west to the south east, with St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Engraving, 1798.
  • Coldbath Fields Prison, London: view from the north west to the south east, with St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Engraving, 1798.
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a convict sitting in a bare room on a stool with some work in his hands. Process print after Paul Renouard.
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a prisoner standing in a dock before the governor, in the presence of guards. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • Newgate Prison, London: male prisoners taking exercise by walking around the prison yard. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1873.
  • A prison ship in the River Thames at Deptford: rowing boats convey prisoners between land and the ship. Engraving by George Cooke after Samuel Prout.
  • Wormwood Scrubs prison, London: four cooks in prison uniform standing in a line in front of buckets and baskets. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
  • Sarah Malcolm in Newgate Prison shortly before her execution. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • The annals of Newgate; or, Malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors ... Calculated to expose the deformity of vice, the infamy and punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the paths of virtue ... / By the Rev. Mr. Villette.
  • William Cox, burglar, in Newgate prison. Etching, ca. 1773.
  • Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in Newgate Prison, London, surrounded by women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.
  • Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in Newgate Prison, London, surrounded by women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.
  • Newgate Prison, London: a man's shirt is being laid over his shoulders by a prison warder after he has been flogged by a man with a cat o'nine tails. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • A rioter in the Gordon Riots has a cudgel in his hand and Newgate Prison is on fire in the background. Etching attributed to J. Gillray.
  • St George's Fields, Southwark: anti-Catholic rioters in the Gordon riots wielding sticks, displaying banners, and setting buildings on fire. Etching, 1780.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..
  • The first stone and inlaid coins of Holloway prison. Lithograph by C.M. Firth.
  • The Beggar's opera: on trial for robbery, Captain Macheath stands in shackles in Newgate prison, while two of his lovers (Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit) plead for his life. Engraving by W. Blake after W. Hogarth, 1st July 1790.
  • London and the River Thames seen from the south, from Westminster to Greenwich. Wood engraving by F. J. Smyth, 1845.
  • London and the River Thames seen from the south, from Westminster to Greenwich. Wood engraving by F. J. Smyth, 1845.