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  • 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.
  • Shanghai: three Chinese women prisoners locked at the neck into one cangue (portable pillory). Photograph, 18--.
  • Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in Newgate Prison, London, surrounded by women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.
  • Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in Newgate Prison, London, surrounded by women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.
  • Prisoners behind bars opening on to a yard in Moscow being visited by men and women at Easter. Wood engraving, 1890.
  • Men and women are prisoners in cells, one man is being tortured by having the soles of his feet beaten with a stick. Wood engraving after G. Durand.
  • Men and women are gathered outside a prison in Cairo as prisoners look out from behind the bars, and a child stands on ledge to look through the window. Wood engraving after J.C. Horsley, 1876.
  • An episode in The beggar's opera: the highwayman Macheath in prison, two young women are kneeling in front of two men and begging for his release. Etching after W. Hogarth.
  • China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
  • Cornelia, the Vestal Virgin, entombed alive surrounded by bones in the dungeon. Line engraving by G. Mochetti after B. Pinelli.
  • Scene from the Barzunama
  • Serbo-Turkish War: series of sketches including the convalescent hospital, the Chapel at Lazare and prisoners of war. Wood engraving.
  • Syphilis: its symptoms, transmission and consequences in Turkey. Colour lithograph by Refet Başokçu, 193-.
  • World War One: a military doctor is dressing the wound of a Russian woman soldier in a trench. Watercolour by F. Matania, 1917.
  • Turkish prisoners from Cyprus being transported to Turkey, on board a ship with a guard watching them from the rail. Wood engraving, 1878.
  • English families taken as hostages in the French Revolution, imprisoned in the orphanage of Arras. Engraving by P. Maxell, 1802, after T. Snagg.
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.
  • Orphans.
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  • Five men beating three women with sticks in Ethiopia. Wood engraving by É. Bayard after G. Lejean, 1867.