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  • Lucifer's angels tumble out of heaven, their limbs entwined. Etching by R. Pranker, 176-.
  • Two men burning a man alive; three men cutting a man's limbs; a man about to cut a man's head with an axe. Lithograph.
  • Tropium Chlordiazepoxide B P : 'turns' the emotional and behavioural effects of anxiety and stress to normality.
  • The council in hell: the fallen angels, persuaded by Satan, decide to pursue the battle against God. Etching by J. Ireland after W. Hogarth.
  • A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.
  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • The miser in hell. Mezzotint after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Dante and Virgil watching heretics in hell ripping their bodies apart as punishment for schism. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) entering hell. Mezzotint by Richard Earlom after David Teniers, 1786.
  • An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
  • The damned writhe in boiling cauldrons; representing hell. Woodcut.
  • The levels of hell depicted as circular stone tiers; purgatory lies outside its walls. Engraving.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • Episodes in Dante's Divine comedy. Etchings by B. Pinelli, 1824-1826.
  • Hell. Engraving after Buonamico di Martino called Buffalmacco.
  • Tropium Chlordiazepoxide B P : 'turns' the emotional and behavioural effects of anxiety and stress to normality.
  • Four faces of the damned in Dante's Hell. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • The circles of hell and limbo (containing Abraham and Lazarus) beneath the earth; snakes appear at the surface of the earth. Engraving by J. Wierix, 1595.
  • The Last Judgment: the world lies in ruins and sinners in hell are tortured by monstrous devils. Engraving by Petrus de Jode the elder, 1615, after Jean Cousin the younger.
  • The torture of Roman Catholics by monsters in hell, with Charon ferrying more departed souls over the river Styx. Engraving with etching.
  • An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
  • Ahasuerus (the Wandering Jew) man sits in hell among the shades, decrepit and tormented by Satan. Wood engraving by F.J. Gauchard after G. Doré, 1856.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • Sins and subsequent punishment in Hell. Chromolithograph.
  • Two devils in a laboratory produce statutes with the help of a genie; showing the repressive nature of the government of France under Louis-Philippe, especially concerning the freedom of the press. Lithograph by E. Le Poittevin, 1831.