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Newgate Chapel
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Water Engine, Cold-Bath-Fields Prison
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
John Bluck
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Water Engine, Cold Bath Fields Prison
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
John Bluck
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Carcere, Plate XIII
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778)
For instance, now, there’s the King’s Messenger. He’s in prison now, being punished! and the trial doesn’t even begin till Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all.
Peter Blake (1932 - )
Apollo, having overcome Marsyas in a Challenge, orders him to be Flead Alive
Jean-Michel Moreau (1741 - 1814)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
Pass-Room, Bridewell
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
John Hill (1770 - 1850)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
The Cabbage Harvest
Edward Burra (1905 - 1976)
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Bambridge on Trial for Murder by Committee of House of Commons
Thomas Cook (1744 - 1818)
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Pillory, Charing Cross
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
John Bluck
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Pass-Room, Bridewell
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
John Hill (1770 - 1850)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Carcere, Plate X
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778)
Forced Labour
Alfred Hrdlicka (1928 - 2009)
Cecil Arthur Tooke, OBE (1884-1966) seaman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Arthur Kampf (1864 - 1950)
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls
R B Kitaj (1932 - 2007)
Newgate Chapel
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Water Engine, Cold-Bath-Fields Prison
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
John Bluck
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
High Treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: the Trial of Sir Roger Casement 1916
Sir John Lavery (1856 - 1941)
Water Engine, Cold Bath Fields Prison
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
John Bluck
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
R is for Robber
Sir William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
Mrs. Fry Reading to the Prisoners in Newgate, in the Year 1816
Jerry Barrett (1824 - 1906)
Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824 - 1889)
Making Soldiers: Bringing in Prisoners
Eric Henri Kennington (1888 - 1960)
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