Grim Collection

Deux meres ( Two Mothers ), 1888. Artist: Leon-Maxime Faivre
Deux meres ( Two Mothers ), 1888. From the Musee d Orsay, Paris

Housing project, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1962. Artist: Michael Walters
Housing project, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1962. This housing development in Kirby Street in the South Yorkshire town of Mexborough is a good example of the failed 1960s housing ethos

The potteries, 1926. Artist: Edgar & Winifred Ward
The potteries, 1926. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 5: Christianity Today and Tomorrow, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake

Portrait of Estelle Balfour, 1863-1865. Creator: Edgar Degas
Portrait of Estelle Balfour, 1863-1865. Estelle Musson Balfour (1843-1909), the artist's cousin from New Orleans, visited France in 1863-65

Man's portrait, with blue cap, 1874-1925. Creator: Jan Veth
Man's portrait, with blue cap, 1874-1925

Roberts, Mary, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1915. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Roberts, Mary, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1915

Ward for Condemned Male Prisoners, Newgate Prison, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Ward for Condemned Male Prisoners, Newgate Prison, [London], 1850. Those sentenced capitally are taken to the condemned cells, not to leave them again until their last moment, except for chapel

Corridor, Newgate Prison, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Corridor, Newgate Prison, [London], 1850. The gaol of Newgate, beyond all doubt, has great defects compared with more modern erections

Peasant in a Pointed Fur Cap, c1640. Creator: Adriaen van Ostade
Peasant in a Pointed Fur Cap, c1640

Figurehead: "Andrew Jackson", c. 1938. Creator: Elizabeth Fairchild
Figurehead: " Andrew Jackson", c. 1938

Glimpses of Old Newgate - Interior of Newgate showing the Galleries, c1900. Newgate Prison, dating back to the 12th century, was originally located at the site of Newgate

Glimpses of Old Newgate - Exercise Ground for Condemned Men, c1900. Creator: Rotophot
Glimpses of Old Newgate - Exercise Ground for Condemned Men, c1900. Newgate Prison, dating back to the 12th century, was originally located at the site of Newgate

Plate 24 from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra): They can still be of use. (Aun podran servir.), 1810 (published 1863)

Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1856, 1856. Creator: George Hayward
Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1856, 1856. [Federal Hall and the Verplanck Mansion, Wall Street, 1789. Drawn by David Grim]

Queens Bench Prison, Borough High Street, Southwark, London, 1879. The prison, formerly a debtors prison, closed in 1880

Cold Bath Fields Prison, Finsbury, London, 1814. Exterior view of the prison with sheep grazing in the foreground

Newgate-Exercise Yard, 1872. Artist: Heliodore Joseph Pisan
Newgate-Exercise Yard, 1872. View of prisoners excercising at Newgate Prison, Old Bailey, London. Taken from London: A Pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dore

Newgate Prison, Old Bailey, London, c1815. Artist: George Shepherd
West view of Newgate Prison, Old Bailey, London, c1815 with horse drawn carriages in the front

View of Marshalsea Prison on Borough High Street, Southwark, London, 1832. Artist
View of Marshalsea Prison on Borough High Street, Southwark, London, 1832

Oak Hill housing development, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1970s. Artist: Michael Walters
Oak Hill housing development, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1970s. Built in 1971, the Oak Hill housing development in Rotherham epitomised everything that was wrong with the attempts of the time to

Queens Bench Prison - The Prisoners Yard, Borough High Street, Southwark, London, 1879 (1926) Artist: John Crowther
Queens Bench Prison - The Prisoners Yard, Borough High Street, Southwark, London, 1879 (1926). The prison, formerly a debtors prison, closed in 1880. From Lost London described by E

Traitors Gate, Tower of London, 1801, (1893). Artist: Charles Tomkins
Traitors Gate, Tower of London, 1801, (1893). The entrance to the Tower from the Thames, Traitors Gate afforded many prisoners their last glimpse of the outside world

Melancolia, 1514, (1936). Artist: Albrecht Durer
Melancolia, 1514, (1936). Found in the collection of the British Museum. A print from Durer, Und Seine Zeit, by Wilhelm Waetzoldt, Grosse Phaidon Ausgabe, 1936

British prison life, 1907. Treadmill for hard labour, and punishment with the cat-o-nine-tails. France was suffering from gangs of thugs called the Apaches at this time

Prison discipline, 1884. A Dartmoor prisoner doing solitary punishment at the crank handle. In some prisons this soul-destroying task was put to use such as grinding flour

Prisoners at Clerkenwell House of Correction, London, 1874. Prisoners, in prison uniform, take their turn on the treadmill while the men who have just done their stint wait in silence until it is

Prison discipline, 1888. Prisoners at hard labour on the treadwheel in an English local jail. The prisoner had 15 minutes on, 5 minutes off the wheel, until his time was finished for the day

Wentworth Street, Whitechapel, London, 1872. A scene depicting life in the poor Jewish quarter of the city. From London: A Pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dore. (London, 1872)

Dudley Street, Seven Dials, London, 1872. Unkempt, dirty children play in the street while a cab tries to drive through without crushing them

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867), French Symbolist poet and art critic, 1864-1865
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867), French Symbolist poet and art critic who was interested in satanism and the macabre, 1864-1865

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