Person who is deprived of liberty against their will

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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-.

Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.

Thirteen male prisoners in India or Burma ("dacoits", bandits) wearing chains around their necks and ankles. Process print.

W.E. Gladstone and other Liberal politicians as prisoners being released from prison; relatives and friends waiting for them at the gate. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 18 December 1886.

Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: (left) prisoners are walking in a long file leaving spoons in a bowl as they go  past; (right) prisoners stand in line to receive a loaf of bread. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer, 1876, after F. Régamay.

Franco-Prussian War: Civil unrest in Paris. Wood engraving.

Elizabeth Hartley playing the role of Lady Jane Grey. Engraving by C. Sherwin after himself.

Ugolino, his sons and grandsons in a cell facing death by starvation. Engraving by A. Raimbach after Sir J. Reynolds.

A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.

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

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

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.

China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.

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Prisoners

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Images referencing Prisoners

Works from the collections

A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.

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

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

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.

China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.

Prisoners

Images from the collections

Images referencing Prisoners

Works from the collections

A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.

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

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

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.

China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.

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