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  • Newgate Prison, London: male prisoners taking exercise by walking around the prison yard. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1873.
  • Bridewell Prison, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving.
  • Jack Sheppard in prison. Etching, ca. 1724.
  • Michael Servetus in prison, statue by C. Roch
  • Prison formerly connected with the St. Marylebone Infirmary.
  • William Cox, burglar, in Newgate prison. Etching, ca. 1773.
  • 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.
  • A prison chaplain (Henry Labouchère) is visiting the journalist Edmund Yates in prison. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 3 May 1884.
  • A Japanese prison. Gouache painting by a Japanese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Saint Peter appearing to Saint Agatha in prison. Engraving by Salvardi.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
  • The criminal prisons of London, and scenes of prison life / by Henry Mayhew ... and John Binny.
  • A manacled man is lead to prison by soldiers wearing tricorn hats. Etching.
  • 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.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: five women prisoners convicted of infanticide. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: women prisoners working the fire pump. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • Torture in a Sicilian prison in Monreale: the prisoner has a tourniquet applied to his forehead. Wood engraving.
  • Bailey Prison, Lying-in Hospital, Salford, Lancashire. Etching by J. Davies, 1829, after Harwood.
  • The prison, retirement home and thermal baths, Bagnères de Bigorre. Lithograph after E. Sewrin.
  • The first stone and inlaid coins of Holloway prison. Lithograph by C.M. Firth.
  • Krishna freeing his parents (Vasudeo and Devki) from prison. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1907.
  • The Tombs prison, Centre Street, New York City. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1880.
  • Saint Paul in prison, writing an epistle to Timothy: his shackles are broken. Engraving.
  • The Tombs prison, Centre Street, New York City. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1880.
  • Prison, Philadelphia: side view. Coloured engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1831, after C. Burton.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.