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A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.
Westall, Richard, 1765-1836.Reference: 18362i- Pictures
A prisoner's feet are tied to a pole as a man with a long stick beats the soles of his feet, Persia. Process print by C. Hentschel, 1896, after F. Dadd.
Dadd, Frank, 1851-1929.Date: [1896]Reference: 586391i- Pictures
China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663451iPart of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband
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A prison chaplain (Henry Labouchère) is visiting the journalist Edmund Yates in prison. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 3 May 1884.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: 3 May 1884Reference: 564622i- Pictures
Jacob Johan Anckarström. Stipple with etching by J. Condé, 1792.
Date: 1792Reference: 559351i