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Guillotine

Images

  • Inventions: various illustrations taken from mediaeval or later manuscripts. Process print, 1905.
  • The head of King Louis XVI being cut off by a guillotine. Etching by James Gillray, 1793.
  • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1812, after J. L. David.
  • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1812, after J. L. David.
  • A rowdy dinner of British political radicals at John Horne Tooke's house in Wimbledon: Tooke and Burdett wear bonnets rouges. Coloured etching by Thomaso Scrutiny (Samuel De Wilde?), 1808.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    A history of the guillotine / [Alister Kershaw].

    Kershaw, Alister. | Date: [1958]
    • Books

    La guillotine en 1793 : d'après des documents inédits des Archives nationales / Hector Fleischmann.

    Fleischmann, Hector, 1882-1914. | Date: 1908
    • Pictures

    Charlotte Corday having her long hair cut off before being executed by the guillotine. Engraving by L. Stocks after E.M. Ward, ca. 1863.

    Ward, Edward Matthew, 1816-1879. | Date: [1863?] | Reference: 651531i
    • Books

    The good doctor Guillotin and his strange device / André Soubiran ; translated by Malcolm MacCraw.

    Soubiran, André, 1910-1999. | Date: [1964]
    • Books
    • Online

    Recherches physiologiques, et expériences sur la vitalité / Par J.J. Sue ... Suivies d'une nouvelle édition de son Opinion sur le supplice de la guillotine ou sur la douleur qui survit à la décolation.

    Sue, J. J. (Jean Joseph), 1760-1830. | Date: An VI (1797)
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