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  • Two ladies duelling with pistols. Engraving, 1792.
  • Two gentlemen duelling with pistols. Etching, 1823.
  • A man is wounded after duelling with pistols in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Engraving, 1834.
  • A nobleman shoots his opponent in a duel with pistols. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • Palmyra, Syria: Louis-François Cassas, received by an Arab chief in the temple of Bel, offers him bottles of liquids and pistols. Engraving by S.C. Miger after L.F. Cassas.
  • Memphis, Egypt: English travellers trapped in catacombs find the bodies of two Italian men who had previously been trapped there, and had starved to death: they fire their pistols at six ghostly figures; Arabs steal their horses. Etching with engraving by E. Kirkall, 1709.
  • An episode in The sorrows of young Werther, by Goethe: Albert, the husband of Charlotte, asks his wife to comply with Werther's request to lend him his pistols; she hands them to Werther's servant boy, knowing that Werther will shoot himself with them. Line engraving by P. Bonato after J.H. Ramberg.
  • Small pewter syringe with pistol handle, ivory inlay.
  • Sylvester Sound aiming a pistol at a broken mirror. Etching by T. Onwhyn, 1844.
  • A Montenegrin man wearing national dress with medals, with a pistol in his belt and holding a tobacco pipe.
  • An man in classical costume (Lord Strawberry), standing outside a prison, is pointing his pistol at the man kneeling at his feet amidst two corpses. Aquatint, 1811.
  • King Charles I at Holdenby House (Holmby House), Northamptonshire, is summoned by Cornet Joyce, who shows the King his pistol as his authority. Engraving after P. Angelis.
  • Charles James, seated at his desk with candles burning, contemplating suicide, holds a pistol to his mouth. Engraving by W. Skelton after C.R. Ryley after C. James.
  • Hudibras confronts with a pistol a club-wielding crowd, including Crowdero the fiddler with a peg leg, Talgot the butcher, and Orsin with his bear. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • A soldier with a pistol in his hand is looking over a wall at a small duck walking down the middle of the road. Process print after Lawson Wood.
  • A young man lies on the ground with a letter and a pistol alongside him, two other young men and a woman are nearby looking distraught. Engraving and etching.
  • After losing their money through gambling and killing their father in an accident, one brother kills himself with poison while another shoots himself in the head with a pistol. Etching, 179-.
  • Hudibras confronts, with a pistol, a club-wielding crowd, including Crowdero the fiddler with a peg leg, Taglot the butcher, and Orsin with his bear. Aquatint by Rosenburg, 1799, after William Hogarth.
  • One man is holding a pistol to another man's head as others make off with cargo from the hold of the ship or consume its contents. Etching by Paul Pry (William Heath).
  • An old smuggler (Mr Moffit) is shot dead by a naval inspector with a pistol, who finds rolls of tobacco in the dead man's pockets; other people attend the scene. Engraving by W. Greatbach, 1833, after F. Pickering.
  • What the doctor found : in the body of Frank Wilson, who was operated on for appendicitis in a hospital at Cairo (Ill.), were found:- a button hook, a hat pin, three keys, a lead pencil, a belt buckle, a toy pistol, three small nails, a needle, a thermometer.
  • A Turkish executioner. Coloured aquatint by I.H. Clark, 1818.
  • Tom Idle and a prostitute sit on a broken bed in a garret. Idle is startled by a cat falling down the chimney, but the prostitute is unmoved and admires a stolen earring. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1795.
  • Tom Idle and Francis Goodchild, once colleagues meet at a session of the court of justice; Idle is a pleading defendant while Goodchild wearing the furred robe and chain of an alderman is the acting magistrate. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth.
  • Mr. Lambkin drunk on champagne sitting in a carriage at Epsom with lots of other drunken bachelors. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Travelling gypsies resting under a tree outside a village. Etching by Jacques Callot.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.