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Sir Thomas More

The National and Domestic History of England Vol 2 (1878)

A beautiful engraving showing Sir Thomas More in his prison cell; the gaoler [jailer] approaches, carring a heavy bundle of keys. Sir Thomas More (also Saint Thomas More) was executed by beheading whe [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, prisons, punishments

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-24

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Newgate – Exercise Yard

London (1872)

Prisoners walk in a circle in a stone-walled prison courtyard that admits very little light. The guards look on, wearing smarter clothes and top hats. Newgate’s sombre walls suggest sad thoughts on t [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, people

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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Young Bekie

Some British Ballads (1919)

The picture shows a young man lying on the floor of a prison cell or castle dungeon [donjon], his hands on his head, and with one ankle chained to the wall. There are a great number of rats or mice i [...]

Keywords: interiors, prisons, animals, people, chains, colour, spooky

Places shown: Paris; France

Added: 2006-05-13

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One of the dark cells

The Leisure Hour (1896)

From a contemporary sketch. Depicting a cell in the dark and feared dungeon of Vincelles, some time between the 16th century and 18th century. The prisoner sits glumly on a rather uncomfortable-lookin [...]

Keywords: prisons, punishments, people, chains

Places shown: Vincelles; Jura; France

Added: 2007-01-20

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Cells at town hall, Boston, England, where the Pilgrim Fathers were confined

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

A photograph of a prison, jail or gaol, showing the iron bars of open cell doors. According to the extract from the book that follows, the “Pilgrim Fathers” (a group of Puritans, a sort of fanatical [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, cages, interiors, corridors, spooky

Places shown: Boston; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2006-02-20

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Prison Cells (wallpaper version)

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

A version of Prison Cells... for use as a computer desktop background image (root wallpaper or whatever you call it on your system). I cropped the image and increased the contrast to make it more atm [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, cages, interiors, corridors, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Boston; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2006-02-20

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