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  • The death of Captain John Porteous in the Porteous Riots in Edinburgh in 1736. Etching by J. Tingle after T.M. Richardson, 1836.
  • The widow of a murdered French envoy in Rome pleading for her life: a man tells her "We are Romans, we do not kill women". Etching after J.D. Schubert.
  • Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe, is led out through the gates of La Force prison to the street in Paris where she is killed by the Revolutionary mob. Wood engraving.
  • Cade's rebellion, 1450: Dick the butcher and Smith the weaver seize Emmanuel ("the clerk of Chatham") and threaten to hang him with his pen and inkhorn. Stipple engraving by J. Coles after H.W. Bunbury, 1795.