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  • Gottfried Eisenmann. Lithograph by G. W. Faber.
  • Prisoners in the French Revolution awaiting the summons to the guillotine. Engraving by Masson after Charles Muller.
  • The Bastille, Paris. Line engraving by J.F. Borgnet after J.M. Gudin (?).
  • The first stone and inlaid coins of Holloway prison. Lithograph by C.M. Firth.
  • The murder of Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe: French revolutionaries dragging her naked, headless, body along the streets of Paris with her head on a pike. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.
  • Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe, is led out through the gates of La Force prison to the street in Paris where she is killed by the Revolutionary mob. Wood engraving.
  • 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.
  • Torture in a Sicilian prison in Monreale: the prisoner has a tourniquet applied to his forehead. Wood engraving.
  • Emilie-Louise de Beauharnais, Comtesse de La Valette. Lithograph by Zéphirin-Félix-Jean-Marius Belliard.