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The death-mask of Maria Manning, the murderer: three views. Lithograph by John Lane.

The trial of William Palmer for the Rugeley poisonings / [William Palmer].

Death mask of Martin, a parricide. Lithograph, c. 1835.

An Italian brigand attacking a gentleman on a road; exhibiting the phrenological 'propensity' of 'destructiveness'. Steel engraving by S. Wolff, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.

The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.

Burdett, Peel, O'Connell and Wellington in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull with a rope; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.

Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.

China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.

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

A maniacal man is visited in prison by his children, all ruined through his drinking habit. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

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China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.

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

The trial of William Palmer for the Rugeley poisonings / [William Palmer].

A maniacal man is visited in prison by his children, all ruined through his drinking habit. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.