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The execution of James Graham, first Marquess of Montrose.jpg
The execution of James Graham, first Marquess of Montrose; Montrose with the hangman upon a ladder leaning against the gallows; various figures in attendance; on the right, a figure being beheaded with an axe; Edinburgh in the background.…

The literal translation of terza rima from Italian is 'third rhyme'. Terza rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c, d-e-d. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in…

Playing Card Coleman drawn to his execution.jpg
"Coleman drawn to his execution"; card number 7 of a set of playing cards depicting the Popish Plot .

Francis Wheatley, Ballad seller in Cries-of-London-11.jpg
Plate 11, a ballad seller with strip ballads, selling to two men, around them are two women with a child, and a small boy feeding a dog.

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This melody is a contrafact of the secular song Es ist nicht lang, daß es geschah (“It’s not long ago that this happened”) also known or identified as the Lindenschmied-Weise (either ‘Mr. Lindenschmied’s melody’ or ‘the tune sung by the blacksmith…

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Le barbarie del mondo, by Hieronymous Porro (fl 1574-1604), depicts Italian street people collected under the unkind general heading of  "barbarism of the world". I misread the description of the actions of the people in the print (found at the…

Hess_Baenkelsaenger.jpg
Bänkelsänger in Basel, in front of the "Wirtshaus zur Henne" on the Nadelberg. The sung pictures show the earthquake of Basel 1356 and the floods in Hölstein 1830.

Jacques Callot, Firing Squad.gif
Callot has always been regarded as one of the exceptional artists of his time, although he never made any paintings; he worked exclusively as a printmaker and produced more than 1400 plates, almost all of which he designed and which earned him…

Jacques Callot Strappado.gif
Callot has always been regarded as one of the exceptional artists of his time, although he never made any paintings; he worked exclusively as a printmaker and produced more than 1400 plates, almost all of which he designed and which earned him…

Jacques Callot, The Wheel.jpg
Callot has always been regarded as one of the exceptional artists of his time, although he never made any paintings; he worked exclusively as a printmaker and produced more than 1400 plates, almost all of which he designed and which earned him…

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Engraving depicting the execution of Sir Thomas Armstrong in Tyburn, on 20 June 1684.

Jacques Callot, Hanging.gif
Callot has always been regarded as one of the exceptional artists of his time, although he never made any paintings; he worked exclusively as a printmaker and produced more than 1400 plates, almost all of which he designed and which earned him…

Jacques Callot, The Stake.gif
Callot has always been regarded as one of the exceptional artists of his time, although he never made any paintings; he worked exclusively as a printmaker and produced more than 1400 plates, almost all of which he designed and which earned him…

John_Franklin_-_Paul's_Walk.jpg
John Franklin's illustration of Paul's Walk for William Harrison Ainsworth's novel, Old St. Paul's, published London : Chapman & Hall, 1841.

Vagabondiana 1817 ballad seller.jpg
Plate XIV 'New Elegy' - Illustration from 'The Cries of London' 1839

Leslie_-_Autolycus.jpg
Autolycus was a thief disguised as a pedlar who appears in Shakespeare's play A Winter's Tale. He is shown here selling cheap goods and sensational printed ballads to gullible country folk. Leslie based the background sky and the ash tree at the…

ulf_9_JB_Troppmann_portrait.jpg
Photographic portrait of the French murderer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann

Hell_Broke_Loose,_or_The_Murder_of_Louis,_1793.jpg
Satire on the execution of Louis XVI; the king kneeling under the guillotine operated by two winged devils; Abbé Edgeworth kneeling in front of him, with crucifix and prayer's book; angel playing trumpet among clouds surrounded by devils flying…

Claude_Duval by William_Powell_Frith_.jpg
A coach stopped by highwaymen, one bowing to the women inside, who plead or faint, others going through the luggage, one playing a pipe on the left, the gentleman sitting bound near him, watching glumly as the chief highwayman, Duval, sweeps a…

Pillory-Charing-Cross.jpg
Plate 62: view of Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, with two men in the pillory in the centre surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd, on the right the equestrian statue of Charles I stands watching over the scene; illustration to the book 'Microcosm of…

Wageman_-_Fawcett_as_Autolycus.jpg
Watercolour portrait depicting John Fawcett, the actor and dramatist, in the role of Autolycus in Shakespeare's 'A Winter's Tale'. Signed and dated T. C. Wageman 1828.

Rowlandson Last Dying Speech.jpg
This watercolour depicts a streetseller vending a batch of criminal broadsheets. In the background, crowds are watching an execution taking place outside Newgate Prison.

rowlandson news criers.jpg
Two men handing out news notices in the street. One blowing a small wind instrument.

Hanging_of_William_Kidd in chains.jpg
Kidd was tried at the Old Bailey, London, in May 1701. He was found guilty of murder and piracy and was hanged at Execution Dock. Kidd's body was then suspended on a gibbet at Tilbury Point on the lower reaches of the Thames.

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Execution by hanging of the French magistrate Anne du Bourg on 23 December 1559 in Paris.

Lukas_Mayer_1589_Hinrichtung_Peter_Stump.jpg
This woodcut shows the 'breaking wheel' as it was used in Germany in the Middle Ages. The exact date is unknown, as is the creator, but it depicts the execution of Peter Stumpf in Cologne in 1589. This form of punishment was most common during the…

ulf_25_Exécution_de_Marie_Antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793.jpg
Marie Antoinette's execution in 1793 at the Place de la Révolution

murder of William of Orange.jpg
Prince William of Orange was assassinated by a Jesuit named Balthasar Gérard (1557-1584).

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A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to l., Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, another…

Hogarth Enraged_musician.jpg
A scene in London, possibly near St Martin's-in-the-Fields, with a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a ballad-seller chants while her baby cries, a milkmaid and other street-traders cry their wares, one…

Hogarth Gin Lane.jpg
A scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners, notably a woman who lets her child fall to its death and an emaciated ballad-seller; in the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so…

Hogarth, The Idle Prentice Executed at Tyburn, BM.jpg
Plate 11: the place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the…

Hogarth The March of the Guards to Finchley.jpg
The March of the Guards to Finchley, also known as The March to Finchley or The March of the Guards, is a 1750 oil-on-canvas painting by English artist William Hogarth, owned by and on display at the Foundling Museum.

This painting depicts London…
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