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  • Executions of Huguenots after the Huguenot conspiracy of Amboise in 1560: some conspirators are hung by the neck from a tower, others are beheaded. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
  • The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by soldiers. Etching.
  • The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot by soldiers, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by townsfolk. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
  • The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot by soldiers, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by townsfolk. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
  • Île aux Bœufs, Loire: negotiations for the Pacification of Amboise in 1563 between the Queen Mother (regent for Charles IX), and the Huguenots, showing her receiving deputies at her tent. Etching attributed to J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
  • Silver pomanders of the 17th century
  • Edward VI granting letters, Strangers' Church in London
  • Two floral designs, perhaps for woven silk fabric. Etching, c. 1760, after J. Pillement.
  • Pierre de La Ramée (Peter Ramus) is held down and stabbed by soldiers with a halberd and a sword. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after Edmond Morin.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Mezzotint by Vispré.
  • The St Bartholomew's Eve Massacre: men, women and children are thrown out of windows or slaughtered with swords and pikes on the streets of Paris in 1572. Engraving after D. Dodd, 1765.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day: Gaspard de Coligny is stepping out of his house about to be killed by a marauding crowd. Coloured aquatint by J-B. Morret after A.L.F. Sergent.