Saint John the Baptist in Prison Sends His Disciples to Question Jesus
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Giorgio Ghisi - The Prison, Anonymous, Italian Print
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The Round Tower, from 'Carceri d'invenzione' (Imaginary Prisons)
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Initial S with Saint Peter Liberated from Prison
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The Round Tower, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)
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"Giv Avenges Bahram by Slaying Tazhav", Folio 248r from the Shahnama (...
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The Staircase with Trophies, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Pris...
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Caïus Marius assis dans les prisons de Miturne
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The Grand Piazza, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Vue de prisons
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Ancient Roman forum surrounded by porticoes, with loggias, some of whi...
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The Well, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
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The Drawbridge, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
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The Sawhorse, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
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Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man with a lion on a leash
Print shows a member of the Third Estate playing a bagpipe, standing next to a tame lion, representing the monarchy, and manipulating marionettes, representing the clergy and the nobility, on a string tied to h... More
Shakspeare. Much ado about nothing, act IV, scene II
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The Pier with Chains, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The staircase with trophies.
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Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imagina...
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William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 7
A room in the Fleet Prison. Tom sits at a table while his wife clenches her fists and the jailer asks for garnish money. To left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman wh... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 7
A room in the Fleet Prison. Tom sits at a table while his wife clenches her fists and the jailer asks for garnish money. To left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman wh... More
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 4
Bridewell prison with inmates (including prostitutes and a card-player) beating hemp under the supervision of a warder holding a cane. Moll is still dressed in her finery, but a one-eyed female attendant finger... More
Augustin Pajou - Le Grand Pénitencier
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The Arch with a Shell Ornament, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary P...
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The Smoking Fire, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
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The Gothic Arch, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
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Title Page, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
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The Giant Wheel, from Carceri d'invenzioni (Imaginary Prisons)
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The Pier with a Lamp, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The giant wheel.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The skeletons.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The Gothic arch.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Carceri d'invenzione. [Title Plate]
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The round tower.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The sawhorse.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The pier with a lamp.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The well.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The smoking fire.
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A View of a Prison of the Composition of Mr. Blondel done at Rome
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Prisoners Presented to the Emperor - Louis Joseph Masquelier
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Madame Royale Cared for by Doctor Brunier, January 24, 1793
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Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man in a red coat and a lion
Print shows a man playing a bagpipe, behind him lies a lion on a chain which is draped over his right arm, his left foot rests on a gameboard, at the far end of which is a peg with string attached, the string r... More
L'homme au masque de fer - Political cartoon, public domain image
Print shows a prisoner in chains and wearing an iron mask sitting on a bench in a prison cell, and another man with a lantern and a tray of food entering the cell in the Bastille. Possibly purchased by George ... More
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Giovanni Battista Piranesi - "Dark Pri...
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Hubert Robert - Visitors leaving a prison
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Trojans Arch, Ancona ; Tasso in prison ; The Bridge of Sighs
Information from accompanying cards: Beneath the gilt fore-edges of each volume are fine detailed paintings. The one on volume I is divided into three parts depicting Trojans Arch, Ancona, Tasso in Prison and t... More
Melopoyn haranguing the prisoners in the fleet : Hogarthian Novelist. ...
Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor... More
Bambridge on trial for murder by a committee of the House of Commons /...
Print shows several members of the House of Commons, including James Oglethorpe and Archibald Grant, gathered in a room at the Fleet Prison for an investigation of Thomas Bambridge, warden of the prison, for th... More
Arrestation de Mr. de Launay, gouverneur de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet...
Print shows a mob of revolutionaries after the storming the Bastille, when late in the afternoon, Governor De Launay, of the Bastille, is arrested and taken away, on the lower left, at the beginning of the Revo... More
Prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1789 Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthaul...
Print shows a mob of revolutionaries storming the Bastille at the beginning of the Revolution in 1789. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Au... More
Thomas Simmons, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737
Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors, a popular artist in the Regency period in England.
John Bluck - Fleet Prison, Thomas Rowlandson
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Newgate Chapel, Thomas Rowlandson, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Newgate Chapel, Thomas Rowlandson, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The custody is as barbarous as the crime (Tan bárbara la seguridad com...
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She Stoops to Conquer, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737
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She stoops to conquer, Thomas Rowlandson
The central room of a prison. Various strong doors and iron-grated windows open on the chamber. Bolts, padlocks, and strings of fetters indicate the nature of the security. Behind a grating is seen a prisoner, ... More
Domestic Arrangements in Prison, from "The Vicar of Wakefield"
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Plan of the New York state prison at Mount Pleasant
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
Marshalsea Prison, Thomas Rowlandson, Thomas Rowlandson
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Abel Bowen - House of Industry and House of Correction
House of Industry and House of Correction So. Boston. Built c. 1821-3, Bulfinch, architect(?) Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Litho. of prison yard and outline plan of ground, Pendleton's lithogra...
Litho. of prison yard and outline plan of ground. The first State prison buildings were completed in 1805 and occupied in December of that year when 32 convicts were received from Fort Independence on Castle Is... More
Das allegrösste Bilder ABC. G bei Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin
Print shows the letter "G" formed by a harlequin with left arm extended, holding his hat, and standing before a table with three cups for a shell game on it, with examples "Grossmutter" showing an elderly woman... More
Abel Bowen - House of Industry and House of Correction
House of Industry and House of Correction, South Boston. Built ca. 1821-3?, Chas. Bulfinch? Courtesy of Boston Public Library
[Prison (project). Elevation] - Public domain architectural drawing
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State Prison 1833 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
State prison, 1833. Lynde's Point, on which the State Prison in Charlestown was later erected, was sold by Captain McNeil in November 1800 to the state commissioners appointed by the legislature. It contained o... More
The procession of Jack Sheppard from Newgate to Tyburn
Depicting a scene from "Jack Sheppard" by W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. Three images of the procession of Jack Sheppard from Newgate to Tyburn; the first, Jack Sheppard led from the prison to the cart, escorted b... More
Gov. Seward's letter or the triumph of liberality and justice
A dramatic prison scene, intended to contrast the clemency of New York's Whig governor William H. Seward with the vindictiveness of the Democrat-controlled New York City prison administration. In the interior o... More
Letter from Mary Ann White Johnson, Sing Sing, [New York], to Maria We...
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The Roll Call of the Last Victims of the Terror
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"School Room B" in state prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Unsigned primitive painting of Charlestown Prison Yard showing granite...
Unsigned primitive painting of Charlestown Prison Yard showing granite octagonal structure of 1850. Possibly painted by an inmate; certainly an example of folk art. For the first sixty years in the life of the ... More
Interior of guard room, Mass. State Prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Chain shop in state prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Massachusetts State Prison and warden's house - Charleston, Boston Mas...
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View of Massachusetts State Prison, Charlestown, Mass.
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East front elevation of prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.
East front elevation of prison. Shows Massachusetts State Prison building of 1826, and extension of 1850. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
State prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.
State prison. Gleason's Pictorial 1853. From the accompanying article: Has 554 cells, accommodating 600 prisoners (473 at present), and 33 officers and watchmen. Men and women, old and young, sick and well, can... More
Walnut St. prison Phil. S.E. corner of 6th St
Drawing shows a street-level, perspective view of the Walnut Street Prison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drawing is mounted on paper which is mounted on a large sheet of cream paper watermarked on the left side... More
Castle Thunder, Richmond, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.
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The old Capitol prison - A group of people standing in front of a buil...
No. 1019. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Views in Washington, D.C. Hand written on verso: "from B815-1019 print". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Convicts exercising at Pentonville Prison
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Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia drawn from nature by F. Dielman ; lit...
Print shows a slightly elevated view of the exterior of the Libby Prison building, with the front of the building facing left, a woman with a child walking on the lower left, and a man riding in a horsedrawn wa... More
Plan of part of Richmond, Virginia : showing locations of Rebel prison...
Shows the streets of Richmond below Church Hill from the Canal to Broad Street and from 17th to 21st streets, including Castle Thunder and Libby prisons and the Union officers' and soldiers' hospitals.
Andersonville Prison, Georgia. South end view of the stockade Showing ...
Photograph shows prisoners using latrines in the foreground, masses of huts made of sticks and blankets, and a stockade with sentry boxes in the distance (Source: Notes by Sergeant Warren L. Goss of Co. H, 2nd ... More
Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, Confederate States of America.
Photograph showing a group of people gathered outside Libby Prison, an old tobacco warehouse and former Confederate military prison, now held by the Union Army. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of... More
Andersonville Prison, Georgia. South-east view, taken from the stockad...
Photograph shows prisoners using latrines in the foreground, a group involved in a court martial or trial of a prisoner on the left, a structure with four poles and a blanket roof used as a barber shop in the m... More
Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia sketched by W.C. Schwartzburg, Co. A,...
Print shows an exterior of Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, from across a street, with inmates behind barred windows and guards patrolling in front of the building. Publication date based on copyright state... More
Andersonville Prison, Georgia. Bird's eye view - gathering roots to bo...
Photograph shows prisoners using latrines in the foreground and masses of huts made of sticks and blankets; the cluster of huts in the foreground was referred to as "Mud Island" (Source: Notes by Sergeant Warre... More
Union soldiers as they appeared on their release from the rebel prison...
Cover illustration showing portraits of eight emaciated and sick Union soldiers, seated and lying down. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 18, no. 455 (1864 June 18), p. 393. Soldiers identifie... More
Prison at Andersonville, Ga. - Public domain old map
Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 134 From Sanitary Commission bulletin, v. 1, no. 21, Sept. 1, 1864. opp. p. 647. Plan of camp showing the prison, the "dead line," "Rebel camp," batteries, "Gen. Wi... More
State prison in 1877 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Andersonville Prison, Georgia. View from the main gate Issuing rations...
Photograph shows prisoners gathered for rations distribution in front of Confederate sutlers building and stockade in the distance (Source: Notes by Sergeant Warren L. Goss of Co. H, 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Art... More
Sumpter Prison, Andersonville, Georgia, June 1864
Shows the prison with wooden fence, 18 guard towers, the famous "deadline," the north and south gates, Sweetwater Creek, "Valley of Death," fortification, batteries, and cook house. He depicts overcrowding by a... More
Military prisons at Charleston, South Carolina / sketched by Lieutenan...
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 9, no. 425 (1865 February 18), p. 108.
Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, April 1865 (Andrew J. Russel)
Photograph shows the north side of Libby Prison, a Confederate military prison taken over by Union troops.
Castle Thunder Prison, Petersburg [i.e. Richmond], April, 1865 (Andrew...
Photograph shows a Union guard standing next to Castle Thunder, a Confederate military prison in Richmond, Virginia. Published in: Russell's Civil War photographs : 116 historic prints / by Andrew J. Russell ;... More
Relics of Andersonville Prison from the collection brought from there ...
Inscribed on back: Very Truly yours Dorence Atwater. Entered according to act of Congress by M.B. Brady & Co. in the year 1865 ... District of Columbia. Clara Barton Collection (Library of Congress).
[Grand Review of the Armies, Washington, D.C.; Jefferson Davis' cell a...
Full page includes four illustrations and an article describing Herold's role in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 9, no. 441 (1865 June 10), p. 365. Herold's name erroneousl... More
Home views. No. 15, Rebel prison - 1865
Stereograph shows a bird's-eye or elevated view of Elmira prison camp in New York, with a long line of prisoners standing along the fence with rows of buildings in the background. No. 15. Printed on label: A ... More