Exploitation posters & prints

Sale of a Child Slave, 1871-72 Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin

English miner and transport of coal mined Anonymous

Extraordinary Exploit Anonymous

Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814 Lester

The Market. The Sale of Serfs, 1866 Nikolai Vasilievich Nevrev

Barefoot girls sifting dust in a brickyard, 1871 Unknown

The Slave Market, 1866 Jean Leon Gerome

Slave labour on a sugar plantation in the West Indies, 1725 Unknown

Young girl tending the fire holes of a brick kiln, 1871 Unknown

Chimney Sweep's Boys Trapped in a Chimney English School

The entertainer, c.1870 Charles (attr.) Green

A house of refuge Gustave Dore

Mother, 1988 Hag Hag

Boy pushing a truck loaded with coal from the coal face to the bottom of the pit shaft, c1848 Unknown

Exploits of Cartouche German School

Night, part IV of Cockneys contemplating on the exploits of the day Anonymous

The Slave Market in Rome, c1883-c1884 Jean-Leon Gerome

Leopold II, King of the Belgians Anonymous

All the world's a stage..., London W Taylor

Boy 'putter' drawing a truck containing coal along a 24 inch high seam, Halifax, Yorkshire, 1848 Unknown

The History of Jack Sheppard, his wonderful exploits and escapes. A romance founded on facts. With original illustrations, from drawings... Anonymous

Slaves harvesting sugar cane in Louisiana, 1833 Unknown

Chimney Sweeping with Geese English School

Boy 'putters' moving coal in a narrow seam, Lancashire, England, 1848 Unknown

Woman and children coal 'putters', Mid and East Lothian, Scotland, c1848 Unknown

Woman and boy drawing a corve containing 3-4 cwt of coal, Bolton, Lancashire, 1848 Unknown

Alexander II Proclaiming the Emancipation of the Serfs Anonymous

The History of Jack Sheppard, his wonderful exploits and escapes. A romance founded on facts. With original illustrations, from drawings... Anonymous

Selling a wife, Smithfield Market, London Anonymous

Mount Potosi, Bolivia, c1788. Anonymous

The Song of the Shirt, 1854 Anna E. Blunden

Extraordinary Exploit, 17th January 1826 English School

Slaves working on a tobacco plantation, 1833 Anonymous

A bill advertising a West Indian slave auction in 1829 Anonymous

Lead Mining at Leadhills, the delivery and sorting of the lead David Allan

Louis X the Mischievous emancipates the serfs in 1315 Jean Alaux