Women prisoners
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China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663451i
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Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in Newgate Prison, London, surrounded by women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.
Reference: 37722i- Books
Tenacious : art & writings by women in prison. Issue 31, Spring 2014.
Date: 2014- Pictures
Shanghai: three Chinese women prisoners locked at the neck into one cangue (portable pillory). Photograph, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 663411i
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Cornelia, the Vestal Virgin, entombed alive surrounded by bones in the dungeon. Line engraving by G. Mochetti after B. Pinelli.
Bartolomeo PinelliReference: 43434i