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  • 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.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • Boer War: Boer soldiers tending the injured British soldiers and also robbing the dead. Process print after J. Greig.
  • The good Samaritan helps the man who has been robbed and beaten. Engraving, 1793, after stained glass window at Healey Hall, Lancashire.
  • A convalescing patient complaining to his wife about his doctor's bills. Process print after S. Wood, 1911.
  • The good Samaritan helping a wounded man: two background scenes of robbing and assault while two figures walk by, set against Jerusalem. Line engraving by F. Berardi after G. Varana.
  • A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.
  • 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-.
  • Trial, confession, and execution of Courvoisier for the murder of Lord Wm. Russell : memoir of F. B. Courvoisier, Lord W. Russell's valet.
  • Tom Delolme, a medical student, gives evidence as a witness in Bow Street magistrates' court, London: the magistrate and his clerk are seated on the left. Etching after G. Cruikshank, 1844.
  • A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Confession of Thomas Williams, 2 parts.
  • Handbill describing trial of Bishop, Williams and May.
  • Poem ("James May is doomed to die...")
  • The murder of Captain Benevente, and the conspiracy and subsequent divine punishment of the culprits. Etching with engraving and letterpress.
  • 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.
  • Soldiers attacking a coach on a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • A prayer for the liberation from the plague with images of the wounds of Christ, the Instruments of the Passion and of interceding saints. Etching.
  • The hanging of the murderers of Edward Palmer, William Gill and Harold Charrington at Zagazig, Egypt, in 1883. Wood engraving by Harrison.
  • Saint Joseph practises carpentry assisted by the Christ Child, while Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) sews. Engraving by J. Couché, 1786, after Annibale Carracci.
  • A Chinese man lying on the ground is being scourged by order of a magistrate and his clerk; a man carrying the cangue around his neck as a punishment walks past. Engraving by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, May 1805.
  • Two Tamil men of the Kaller caste. Gouache painting.