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The head of John the Baptist is brought to Herod at the feast. Etching by G.W.L. after J. Gossaert.
Gossaert, Jan, approximately 1478-approximately 1532.Reference: 22639i- Pictures
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Judith puts the head of Holofernes into her maid's bag. Etching (?) after H. Goltzius.
Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617.Reference: 20970i- Pictures
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Judith with Holofernes' head; her maid behind her. Line engraving after C. Allori.
Allori, Cristofano, 1577-1621.Reference: 20913i- Pictures
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Judith and her maid hide Holofernes' head. Woodcut.
Reference: 20971i- Pictures
China: the mutilated body of a man who had been dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663854i- Digital Images
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Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
Abu al-Qasim Firdawsi of Tus- Pictures
The head of John the Baptist is brought to Salome. Engraving by B. Curti, 1649, after L. Ferrari.
Ferrari, Luca, 1605-1654.Date: 1649Reference: 22640i- Pictures
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A blindfolded young man is kneeling down about to be beheaded with a sword. Wood engraving.
Reference: 43426i- Pictures
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The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; representing a brutal cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving by F. Campion, 1663.
Date: [1663]Reference: 18171i- Pictures
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A man about to be beheaded on a scaffold surrounded by a crowd of spectators. Line engraving with etching.
Reference: 43510i- Books
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Remarks on the speech of James late Earl of Derwentwater, Beheaded on Tower-Hill for High-Treason, February 24. 1715/16.
Date: [1716]- Pictures
The head of John the Baptist is brought to Salome and Herodias. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Reference: 22681i- Pictures
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Madame Tiquet about to be beheaded for murder, 1699. Line engraving with etching by H.R. Cook, 1819, after G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1819]Reference: 43488i- Pictures
Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.
Date: 1555Reference: 24653i- Pictures
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A goat about to be beheaded as a Hindu ritual in honour of the goddess Kālī. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 726259i- Pictures
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Salome shows the head of John the Baptist to her parents at the feast. Engraving, 1652, after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: 1652Reference: 24123iPart of: Historiae sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti.- Pictures
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A woman is beheaded on a wooden stage in a courtyard with a crowd of soldiers carrying halberds looking on. Engraving by J.C. Philips, 1726.
Philips, Jan Caspar, 1700-1775.Date: 1726Reference: 43512i- Books
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Elegy on the death of Patrick Hamilton younger of Green, who was beheaded at the Grass-merkat of Edinburgh, upon the 5th of September 1716,
Date: 1716]- Books
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The true and remarkable trial, condemnation, and execution of Louis the XVIth, late King of France. Who was on Monday last beheaded at Paris upon a scaffold.
Date: [1793]- Books
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Prophecies of the Reverend Christopher Love: and his last words on the scaffold. Who was beheaded at Tower-Hill, London, the 22d day of August, 1651.
Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.Date: 1794. Sold wholesale and retail- Books
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Prophecies of the Reverend Christopher Love: and his last words on the scaffold: who was beheaded at Tower-Hill, London: on the twenty-second day of August, 1651.
Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.Date: 1793. Price six-pence,- Books
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Prophecies of the Reverend Christopher Love: and his last words on the scaffold: who was beheaded at Tower-Hill, London: on the twenty-second day of August, 1651.
Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The last speech of Sir Godfrey McCullough of Myretoun, knight and baronet : who was beheaded at the cross of Edinburgh, the twenty sixth day of March, 1697.
McCullough, Godfrey, Sir.Date: 1697- Pictures
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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.
Perrissin, J. (Jean), 1536?-1611?Date: [1570?]Reference: 42599iPart of: Quarante tableaux, ou Histoires diverses qui sont mémorables touchant les guerres, massacres, et troubles advenus en France en ces dernières années. Le tout recueilly selon le témoignage de ceux qui ont esté en personne, & qui les ont veues, lesquels sont pourtraits à la vérité.- Pictures
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Mass executions on a scaffold before a crowd of spectators: a group of people is hanged together from a gibbet, while others are beheaded, crucified and disembowelled. Engraving with etching, 16--.
Date: 1600-1699Reference: 43484i