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Prisoners

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  • A prisoner is sitting on straw in a cave with his feet chained to the wall, there are a few provisions on a small shelf in the rock. Etching by R. Blyth after J.H. Mortimer.
  • Plague in Cape Town: convicts cleansing and disinfecting infected buildings. Drawing by H. Johnson, 1891.
  • Turkish prisoners sitting in a cell with a barred window; two of them are racing cockroaches. Process print by Meisenbach after H. Lanos after W.T. Maud.
  • Men and women are prisoners in cells, one man is being tortured by having the soles of his feet beaten with a stick. Wood engraving after G. Durand.
  • Rangoon, Burma: prisoners working a treadmill in jail. Photograph by Watts & Skeen, 189-.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    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
    • Books

    Civil War prisons : a study in war psychology / William Best Hesseltine ; foreword by William Blair.

    Hesseltine, William B. (William Best), 1902-1963. | Date: [1998], ©1998
    • Books
    • Online

    Sick of it! Special edition / a Disability Inside/Outside project.

    | Date: [2023]
    • 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: 663451i
    Part of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband
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