Violent posters & prints

Thirlby Hall; Bunce Scrubbed His Wet Hand Violently Upon His Trousers Before He Would Take Mine, Which I Held Out... William Small

Poverty and violent death can strike down a human being Philips Galle

Company Shocked at a Lady Getting Up to Ring the Bell Anonymous

Capture of John Brown in the Engine House Anonymous

Riot during a strike by Standard Oil workers Anonymous

Soldier Blocking Violent Mob Anonymous

Unrest and violence in Russia, 1906 Unknown

The Burning Well Near the Featherstone Station in the Vicinity of Pontefract Anonymous

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

Field Lane Ragged School, London Anonymous

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, c.1572-84 Francois Dubois

Riot during a strike by Standard Oil workers Anonymous

Riot by railroad workers at Martinsburg on the Baltimore-Ohio Railroad, USA, 1877 Unknown

Night Pillaging Scene Adam Colonia

The Bruiser Bruis'd Anonymous

John Brown Anonymous

Levantines sacking a Mediterranean Port Lodewijk Toeput

Attack of the Travellers, c.1634-37 Sebastien Bourdon

Martyrdom of Saint Julietta and her son Saint Quiricus School Italian

The murder of the brothers De Witt, 1672 Jan Claesz ten Hoorn

Extraordinary and Fatal Combat...between a lion and a tiger and tigress...,Tower of London Anonymous

Pillage Scene in a Village Sebastian Vrancx

Aggravated assault of slaves by the Turks Jan Claesz ten Hoorn

Beernt Proys, Mayor of Utrecht, The Netherlands, is murdered in his bed in 1425 Hermannus Ribbius

Aftermath of a duel, Hyde Park, Westminster, London, 1712 (1768) Anonymous

Persecution of the reformers in the Netherlands, 1574 Pieter van der Aa I

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

The fall of Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick, 1815 Friedrich Campe

Sejanus, prefect under the emperor Tiberius, is beaten and strangled, 31 BC Jan Claesz ten Hoorn

Scenes of Witchcraft: Morning, c. 1645-1649 Salvator Rosa

Riot during a strike by Standard Oil workers, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA, 1915 Unknown

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

Rape of the Sabine Women Pietro da Cortona

Judge Thumb or Sticks of a Lawful Size for Family Discipline Anonymous

A Winter Landscape with the Massacre of the Innocents Gysbrecht Lytens or Leytens

The death of Crazy Horse Amos Bad Heart Buffalo