Crime And Punishment Collection

Louis XI of France visiting Cardinal Balue in his iron cage, 1469-1480 (1882-1884). Artist: Tamisier
Louis XI of France visiting Cardinal Balue in his iron cage, 1469-1480 (1882-1884). Jean Balue (c1421-1491) was a cardinal and minister of Louis XI

A Usurper Stoned to Death?, pub. 1672. Creator: Philip Baldaeus (1632-1672)
A Usurper Stoned to Death?, The Rajah of Kandy presides over a punishment: death by stoning of a half buried prisoner; from Beschreibung der Ost-Indischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel

Hangings and torture, pub. 1672. Creator: Philip Baldaeus (1632-1672)
Hangings and torture from Beschreibung der Ost-Indischem Kusten Malabar und Coromandel... als auch der Insel Zeylon... pub. 1672 (engraving). possibly a religious conflict between Dutch and Spanish

The Impaling of Some rebells?, Punishment: Massacre by impalement, pub. 1672. Creator
The Impaling of Some rebells?, Punishment: Massacre by impalement, from Beschreibung der Ost Indischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel... als auch der Insel Zeylon... pub. 1672 (engraving)

Kings Bench Prison, Southwark, London, c1800. Artist
Kings Bench Prison, Southwark, London, c1800. View within the walls

Mark Lane, London, 1783. Christopher Atkinson in the pillory outside the Corn Exchange, London, in the presence of the Sheriffs

Jonathan Wild going to the place of execution, London, 1725. Soldiers leading the notorious criminal past St Sepulchre Church along Skinner Street on the way to the gallows at Tyburn

Tread-Wheel and Oakum-Shed at the City Prison, Holloway, London, 1862. Artist
Tread-Wheel and Oakum-Shed at the City Prison, Holloway, London, 1862. From The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life by Henry Mayhew (1812-1887) and John Binny, 1862

Surrey House of Correction, Wandsworth, London, 1862. Adult school in the chapel, on the separate system at the Surrey House of Correction, Wandsworth

Raskolnikov und Marmeladov. Illustration for the novel Crime and Punishment by F. Dostoevsky, 1874. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Chinese criminals in the Viceroys Yamen, now used as a jail, Tientsin (Tianjin), China, 1901. Criminals wearing large wooden collars known as cangues. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Chain gang, Soo-Chow (Suzhou), China, late 19th or early 20th century. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Chain gang, Soo-Chow (Suzhou), China, late 19th or early 20th century. A chain gang wearing cangues, which record their crime. Stereoscopic card. Detail

One of Chinas terrible methods of death punishment, Shanghai, China, 1900. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
One of Chinas terrible methods of death punishment, Shanghai, China, 1900. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The needle-room, Clerkenwell Prison, London, 1874. Prisoners sewing mailbags, a common form of prison labour in British jails

The oakum-shed, Clerkenwell Prison, London, 1874. Oakum is a tarred fibre used in shipbuilding. It used to be made from old tarry ropes and its preparation was a common form of prison labour

Judge Isaac C Parker, the Hanging Judge, in his later years, c1890s (1954). Previously a Missouri congressman, Parker was appointed District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas in 1875 at a

Judge Isaac C Parker, the Hanging Judge, c1870s-1880s (1954)
Judge Isaac C Parker, the Hanging Judge, 1874 (1954). Previously a Missouri congressman, Parker was appointed District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas in 1875 at a time of great

The Tower, London, 19th century. From a survey made in 1597 by W Haiward and Gascoyne. Hand-coloured later

Gaullish prisoner, Roman bronze statuette, c1st century

Gaullish prisoner, Roman bronze figure, Umbria, Imperial period

Sons of Freedom, Hear My Story, 1834. A man, looking as if he has been in a drunken brawl, serving his sentence in the village stocks

A pillory, 1805. Artist: William Henry Pyne
A pillory, 1805. Four men being punished in the pillory, being pelted with rubbish and jeered at by a crowd. By this date among crimes punishable by pillory were embezzlement of state property

Edward Richard Henry, British inventor of finger printing, 1905. Artist: Spy
Edward Richard Henry, British inventor of finger printing, 1905. Henrys system was adopted by the Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard) in 1901

Protestants in the Netherlands executed for heresy during Duke of Alvas repressive rule (1567-73)
Protestants in the Netherlands being executed for heresy during Duke of Alvas repressive rule (1567-73). Copperplate engraving

Lucrezia Castellani before Inquisitors after banned Waldenses service, c1476 (19th century)
Lucrezia Castellani accused of heresy before Inquisitors at Turin after taking part in a banned Waldenses service, c1476 (19th century)

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