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Judith with a sword holding the head of Holofernes. Mezzotint by A. von Prenner after A. Varotari, il Padovanino, ca. 1720.

A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.

A destitute girl throws herself from a bridge, her life ruined by alcoholism. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848.

A stable on fire at night: a man leads two horses past a lamenting couple and a dead man. Etching with engraving by C. Visscher after P. van Laer.

An episode in the novel  Niccolò de' Lapi. by Massimo D'Azeglio: a massacre in a church during the Sack of Rome is interrupted by the arrival of the soldier of fortune Fanfulla da Lodi. Wood engraving by A. Centenari and G. Sabbatini after R. Venturi.

A pair of police constables, wearing stovepipe hats, rushing to send a telegraphic report of a murder. Engraving.

A man walking along a country path is attacked by a bodysnatcher hiding behind a brick wall, who asphyxiates him by thrusting a heart-shaped plaster in his face. Coloured etching by Dickey Fubs, 1828.

The Sultan stabs Zara in the chest: the finale of the play Zaire (Zara) by Voltaire. Etching.

The massacre of the innocents. Etching by F.P. Massau after J.F. Overbeck, 1843.

The death of Dirke (Dirce): her stepsons Zetos (Zethos) and Amphion tie her by her hair to the horns of a bull and have her flung into a well. Engraving, 1633.

An account of a shocking, barbarous, bloody, and inhuman MURDER committed on the body of Mary Griffiths, on Monday evening, the 3rd inst 1820, near Carlisle, in Cumberland.

Medico-legal treatise on homicide by external violence.

An account of the crime, trial, confession, and execution of Charles Smith : who was hanged on Newcastle Town Moor, on Wednesday the 3d. of December, 1817,  for the barbarous and cruel MURDER of Charles Stewart, at Ousebourn Pottery.

A drunken man is arrested for killing his wife. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

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An account of a shocking, barbarous, bloody, and inhuman MURDER committed on the body of Mary Griffiths, on Monday evening, the 3rd inst 1820, near Carlisle, in Cumberland.

Medico-legal treatise on homicide by external violence.

An account of the crime, trial, confession, and execution of Charles Smith : who was hanged on Newcastle Town Moor, on Wednesday the 3d. of December, 1817, for the barbarous and cruel MURDER of Charles Stewart, at Ousebourn Pottery.

A drunken man is arrested for killing his wife. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

A destitute girl throws herself from a bridge, her life ruined by alcoholism. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848.