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  • Thieves being tortured by snakes in the 8th circle of Hell, watched by Dante and Virgil. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Policemen entering the study of a medical student in search of thieves shoot at a pair of skeletons by mistake Etching by T. Onwhyn, 1844.
  • The spider and fly : the advertiser takes this opportunity of informing his friends and a discerning public, that he continues the trade of making drunkards, paupers, thieves, beggars, adulterers, and murderers, on the most reasonable terms, and without notice.
  • A cattle thief in Siam punished by having a yoke fixed around his neck. Process print, 19--.
  • A cattle thief in Siam punished by having a yoke fixed around his neck. Process print, 19--.
  • A chicken-thief in Yunnan Province, China, punished by being attached to a tree by his arms, watched by a crowd of people. Halftone after F.W. Carey.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag. Etching by J.J. van Vliet.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag. Watercolour after J.J. van Vliet.
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a thief with his thumbs chopped off. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a thief with his thumbs chopped off. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: Free the captives. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.
  • Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing patient, who is being pick-pocketed by a woman. Line engraving after L. van Leyden, 1523.
  • Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. / by Henry Mayhew.
  • Achan is stoned to death for stealing the spoils of the fall of Jericho. Line engraving.
  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Franz Joseph Gall leading a discussion on phrenology with five colleagues, among his extensive collection of skulls and model heads. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • Franz Joseph Gall leading a discussion on phrenology with five colleagues, among his extensive collection of skulls and model heads. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • Two Tamil men of the Kaller caste. Gouache painting.
  • Policemen apprehend a pickpocket taking a license from a publican; representing the value to the government of publicans' licenses. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1890, after himself.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a nightwatchman. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a nightwatchman. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers by hanging them in large numbers on a tree. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Soldiers attacking a coach on a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers by hanging them in large numbers on a tree. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a nightwatchman. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a nightwatchman. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.