Brutal posters & prints

Second Degree of Torture of the Inquisition LC Stadler

Levantines sacking a Mediterranean Port Lodewijk Toeput

Third Degree of Torture of the Inquisition LC Stadler

The Demon Rough Joseph Swain

The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, c.1497 Josse (fl.1493-1508) Lieferinxe

Martyrdom of Saint Julietta and her son Saint Quiricus School Italian

Nero orders Christian martyrdom by burying with fire Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio Roncalli

St. John boiled in oil Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio Roncalli

How Long Shall Such Brutality Last! Magazine Illustration Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper Anonymous

From Liege to Aix-la-Chapelle Louis Raemaekers

Savage Warrior, c.1800 English School

The Massacre of the Innocents Sebastien Bourdon

Corrida, 1927 Anonymous

The Martyrdom of St Stephen Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio Roncalli

The Misery of War. The Pyre Claude Callot

Room in the Mariinskaya Hospital where Fyodor Kokoshkin was murdered, Petrograd, Russia, 1918 Unknown

Palace Square, St Petersburg, Russia, on Bloody Sunday, 1905 Anonymous

Bullfight. Wounded Picador Marià Fortuny

A female saint is boiled alive Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio (1555-1630) Roncalli

Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor Anonymous

The mortuary, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Spanish Civil War Anonymous

A Boar Hunt Frans Snyders or Snijders

Martyrdom and mutilation of various saints Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio (1555-1630) Roncalli

Martyrdom of a female saint Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio Roncalli

Room where Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed, Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17 1918 Anonymous

Sacking a farm during the period of the French Revolution Etienne Bericourt

Martyrdom of a saint: burnt alive upside down Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio Roncalli

Yakov Yurovsky, chief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II and his family Anonymous

The Police and the Public Charles Samuel Keene

Ruffianly Policeman Anonymous

Martyrdom of Ss Vitus, Modestus and his wife Crescentia Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio Roncalli

Execution of a Jewess in Tangiers, 1860 Alfred Dehodencq

Trellick Tower People Will Always Need Plates

The Hunting of Chevy Chase, 1825-26 Edwin Landseer

The Massacre of Peterloo, or Britons Strike Home George Cruikshank

Martyrdom and mutilation of various saints Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio Roncalli