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  • Boer War: sick and wounded soldiers returning down country. Wood engraving.
  • Shanghai: three Chinese women prisoners locked at the neck into one cangue (portable pillory). Photograph, 18--.
  • Prisoners at Tétouan restrained by chains seated in the presence of four guards armed with rifles. Wood engraving.
  • China: a man standing in a locked cage as a method of slow torture or execution. Photograph, 18--.
  • A series of black vertical lines within a white box, similar to a barcode, with the label 'Dia Mundial del SIDA. No dejes que te etiqueten' [World AIDS Day. Do not let you label]; with a list of 10 points below; an advertisement for a poster the 2nd poster competition to mark World AIDS Day within held within Spanish prisons. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Cimon in prison sucks at the breast of his daughter Pero. Woodcut and letterpress, ca. 1850 (?).
  • The guards in charge of a prisoner chained to the wall are talking to him. Engraving by A.L. Romanet after P.J. Loutherbourg.
  • India: four convicted robbers with leg-irons on their feet and labels suspended around their necks. Photograph, 18--.
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a prisoner standing in a dock before the governor, in the presence of guards. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners are sitting in a room sewing large pieces of cloth. Wood engraving by H.H. after M. Fitzgerald.
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London: a prisoner in the chain-room where manacles are stored: he is cleaning them. Process print after Paul Renouard.
  • The family of Jean Calas say goodbye to him as he is taken from prison to be executed. Engraving by D. Chodowiecki after himself.
  • Saint Leonard. Etching.
  • A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.
  • Nine male prisoners in the Congo standing against a wall joined by chains around their necks. Process print after W.E. Geil.
  • Prisoners marching in the countryside under supervision. Gouache painting.
  • 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.
  • Fourteen male prisoners in Persia sitting on the ground in a group bound together at the neck by chains, with an armed guard. Wood engraving, 1873, after Evelyn H. Ellis.
  • A prisoner behind a barred window in a brick wall. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 19--.
  • A weeping Pero, breast-feeding Cimon, her starving imprisoned father. Line engraving by J. Danzel after N.N. Coypel.
  • Prisoners behind bars opening on to a yard in Moscow being visited by men and women at Easter. Wood engraving, 1890.
  • A prison ship in the River Thames at Deptford: rowing boats convey prisoners between land and the ship. Engraving by George Cooke after Samuel Prout.
  • Future meetings (please note change of room) : HIV positive through NHS treatment: what future? ... Alternative & complementary treatments for HIV/AIDS ... HIV/AIDS and prisons : the management of HIV in prisons / The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.
  • Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire: a man, prisoner number 2517, his eyes are closed and a warder stands behind him; head and shoulders. Photograph, c. 1869.
  • A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners sitting on long benches untangling bundles of twine (picking oakum); a guard raises his hand. Wood engraving. after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.
  • Jack Sheppard in prison. Etching, ca. 1724.
  • Two men carrying a captured monkey tied to a pole, possibly Hanuman. Watercolour drawing.
  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: Free the captives. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • A man condemned to death visited by his family in his prison cell on the day of his execution. Wood engraving by P. Jonnard after M. Munkácsy.