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  • Khiva, Uzbekistan: a woman being stoned to death and a man being hanged. Wood engraving by J. Huyot after E. Bayard, 1878.
  • The refurbishment (or building) of a Lock Hospital; men with various ailments are stepping out of Pandora's box; a rich, smiling, doctor drives by in a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Williamson, 1802.
  • The Royal Naval Hospital and the Queen's House, Greenwich, the Isle of Dogs beyond. Watercolour attributed to G. Samuel.
  • Double picture: a person hanging from the gallows; a witch burning a sleeping couple while a demon figure carries off a child. Woodcut, 1790.
  • James Graham Marquess of Montrose about to mount the ladder to the gibbet in the marketplace of Edinburgh. Wood engraving by C. Roberts.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • The execution of Father Garnet by hanging. Wood engraving.
  • Roderigo Lopez: he conspires to poison Queen Elizabeth I and is hanged. Photograph after an engraving by F. van Hulsen, 1627.
  • The hanging of Hassan Bey in Constantinople. Wood engraving, 1876.
  • A poor depressed man prepares to hang himself in a noose attached to the ceiling. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • Colonel Kirke draws the attention of a distressed young lady to the body of her brother whom he had hanged in an adjoining room. Engraving by F. Deeves after W. Hamilton.
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  • The execution of twelve mutineers at Peshawar; guards on horseback and guards holding spears; mountains in the background. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • The governor of Meaux hanged on a tree in full armour. Engraving with etching by Walker after S. Wale.
  • The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving.
  • The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.
  • Dakota War of 1862 (Sioux Uprising): the mass hanging of Sioux Native Americans at Mankato. Colour lithograph, 1863.
  • A public hanging in Trebizond. Wood engraving by Ch. Barbant after Th. Deyrolle.
  • A Turkish man seated on a stool near a gallows prepares a noose inscribed "Declaration of war against the Allies". Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • The highwayman Dick Turpin, on horseback, arrives at a tree from which two bodies have been hanged. Lithograph by W. Clerk, ca. 1839.
  • The hanging of Saint Maximus of Salzburg; Roman soldiers and other figures in the foreground, an army in the background. Engraving by R. Sadeler after J.M. Kager.
  • The bodies of two men and a skeleton hanging on a gallows; representing the status of the triad. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
  • The execution of mutineers in Peshawar: men being hanged and blown from guns. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • Dakota War of 1862 (Sioux Uprising): the mass hanging of Sioux Native Americans at Mankato. Colour lithograph, 1863.
  • Plovdiv (Philippopolis), Bulgaria: the hanging of Bulgarians by Turks. Wood engraving after C.R., 1876.
  • Above, the execution of William Corder by hanging in 1828; below, William Corder's head as it appeared on the dissecting table and the iron entrance door to the scaffold. Lithograph by Bean and Mundays.
  • A poor painter seated at a canvas contemplates suicide. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Richard Patch, hanged for murder. Line engraving, 1813.