Cruel Collection

Christmas Day in the Workhouse
Illustration and opening verses of In the Workhouse: Christmas Day - better known as Christmas Day in the Workhouse, written by George R Sims in 1877

KETTLE CAT
A ginger cat about to be boiled in a kettle on the kitchen hob!

Man Being Bit By Rats
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Performing bear in a Russian village, 1877. A print from The Illustrated London News, (19 May 1877). Hand-coloured later

The Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) in Prison (engraving)
WYN138844 The Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) in Prison (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; French, out of copyright

Angry Gorilla Illustration
Illustration of a large Gorilla looking angry on a yellow background

Start of a Cock Fight Date: circa 1906

Pyrenean Woman force-feeding a goose in order to fatten up the liver of the bird for making foie gras pate. Date: circa 1910s

The Crickhowell Hunt, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
Members of the Crickhowell Hunt with horses and hounds on a country lane near Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales

Dancing bears in the High Street, Crickhowell, Mid Wales
Two dancing bears and their owners, and several interested spectators, in the High Street, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales

MOVE ON POLICE SATIRE
A cruel satire aimed at the Commissioners of Police, features a skeleton in a policemans uniform moving on a starving, homeless woman and her baby

Mouse or rat trap?, late 19th or early 20th century

Sea Adventure: The buccaneers at Porto Bello (colour litho)
8668732 Sea Adventure: The buccaneers at Porto Bello (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The buccaneers at Porto Bello)

German hunting enclosure, 18th Century (woodcut)
8672856 German hunting enclosure, 18th Century (woodcut) by German School, (18th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: German hunting enclosure, 18th Century)

Bullfight, Seville, Spain (engraving)
8676903 Bullfight, Seville, Spain (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Bullfight, Seville, Spain)

Beauty is only skin deep (colour litho)
8656187 Beauty is only skin deep (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Beauty is only skin deep - then for heaven's sake skin her)

Illustration from the 'Grand Catechism for Families'. 1907. depicting the Crucifixion of Christ
5306068 Illustration from the 'Grand Catechism for Families'. 1907. depicting the Crucifixion of Christ; Universal History Archive/UIG.

Peter I King of Portugal, published in 1915 (print)
3533875 Peter I King of Portugal, published in 1915 (print); (add.info.: Peter I, 1320 - 1367, called the Just or the Cruel. King of Portugal and of the Algarves)

Hunting walrus (engraving)
8663863 Hunting walrus (engraving) by French School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Hunting walrus)

Cockfighting in Flanders (litho)
8663693 Cockfighting in Flanders (litho) by Cogghe, Remy (1854-1935); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cockfighting in Flanders)

Deer hunting using a water trap, 18th Century (engraving)
8663621 Deer hunting using a water trap, 18th Century (engraving) by German School, (18th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Deer hunting using a water trap)

Cleopatra visits Herod, c 33 BC (litho)
8661272 Cleopatra visits Herod, c 33 BC (litho) by Valda, John Harris (1874-1942); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cleopatra visits Herod, c 33 BC)

Jahrmarkt / Fair (colour litho)
8666307 Jahrmarkt / Fair (colour litho) by Christophe (Colomb, Georges) (1856-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: Jahrmarkt)

Foreign Nations Are Slain By Lions In Samaria, Illustration from the Dore Bible, 1866
3665388 Foreign Nations Are Slain By Lions In Samaria, Illustration from the Dore Bible, 1866 by Dore, Gustave (1832-83); (add.info.: Foreign Nations Are Slain By Lions In Samaria)

Illustration from the 'Grand Catechism for Families'. 1907. depicting 'Ecce homo'
5306067 Illustration from the 'Grand Catechism for Families'. 1907. depicting 'Ecce homo' ("behold the man")

Fox tossing, 18th Century (engraving)
8663620 Fox tossing, 18th Century (engraving) by German School, (18th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fox tossing, a blood sport of the 18th Century)

Cruel elves holding on to a cricket's leg. Handcoloured woodblock print by Edmund Evans after an illustration by
FLO4614895 Cruel elves holding on to a cricket's leg. Handcoloured woodblock print by Edmund Evans after an illustration by Richard Doyle from In Fairyland

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: elk-shooting in the Forest of Högtorp…, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: elk-shooting in the Forest of Hogtorp - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. The future King Edward VII in Scandinavia

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant noosed, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant noosed, 1864. Engraving of a photograph '...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to afford

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: herd of wild elephants, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: herd of wild elephants, 1864. Engraving of a photograph '...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to

Calvary, 1923. Creator: Ludvig Karsten
Calvary, 1923

Costumes de Différents Pays, Guerrier Iroquois, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, LF Labrousse
Costumes de Differents Pays, Guerrier Iroquois, c1797

The Educated Mules at the Alhambra Palace, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Educated Mules at the Alhambra Palace, 1858. American circus in London: Messrs. Howes and Cushing's "educated" mules, Barney and Pete who...must have had

First Meet of the Season of the Cotswold Hounds, 1858. Creator: Unknown
First Meet of the Season of the Cotswold Hounds, 1858. Fox hunting in rural England. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. G. Goddard. These hounds, under the mastership of Clego Colmore, Esq

Grouse-shooting - from a drawing by Harrison Weir, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Grouse-shooting - from a drawing by Harrison Weir, 1860. Blood sports. Several bags averaged above 18 brace. That of the Prince Consort and Sir George Grey and suite, in the Moss of Monaltrie

Exhibition of Rhinoceros-Fighting at Baroda, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Exhibition of Rhinoceros-Fighting at Baroda, 1876. Entertainment laid on for the future King Edward VII by the Gaekwar of Baroda during a royal visit to India

Martyrdom of a Christian saint, 1497. Creator: Master of Anne de Bretagne
Martyrdom of a Christian saints, 1497. Illustration from a Book of Hours. Latin text: Initium sancti evangelii secundum Johannem

The Prince of Wales shooting otters at Beypore, from a sketch by an officer of the Serapis, 1876. Creator: L.B
The Prince of Wales shooting otters at Beypore [in India], from a sketch by an officer of the Serapis, 1876. The Prince [the future King Edward VII], on his way from Bombay to Ceylon

The Dead Fox, c.1864. Creator: Gustave Courbet
The Dead Fox, c.1864

Coursing meeting at Hampton Park, 1860. Creator: Frederick John Skill
Coursing meeting at Hampton Park, 1860. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. Elstob Marshall....the Hampton Meeting is the great rendezvous for Cockney coursers...This year the coursing at the Champion

The Child of Horisaka Sahei Tied to a Rice Bale, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Child of Horisaka Sahei Tied to a Rice Bale, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 508

The Coup de Lance, 1593. Creator: Jan Wierix
The Coup de Lance, 1593. From Evangelicae Historiae Imagines

C'est t'y à vous c'hien là ?, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
C'est t'y a vous c'hien la ?, 1847. Is this your dog? From Tout ce qu'on voudra, no. 20

The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy, c.1505-c.1510. Creator: Master of the Figdor Deposition
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy, c.1505-c.1510

Pastoral Cruelty, n.d. Creator: Johann Lorenz Rugendas I
Pastoral Cruelty, n.d

"Bringing Home the Deer" - painted by Bottomley, 1857. Creator: Unknown
"Bringing Home the Deer" - painted by Bottomley, 1857. This characteristic scene is engraved from a drawing made by Mr. Bottomley on a recent visit to the Highlands of Scotland

Throwing Bulls at Seville before the Prince of Wales, from a sketch by our special artist, 1876. Creator: L.B
Throwing Bulls at Seville before the Prince of Wales, from a sketch by our special artist, 1876.... several gentlemen and noblemen...were dressed in the picturesque national costume of black short

The Show-man, 1799. Creator: Monogrammist J.A
The Show-man, 1799. Keep your eye close to the Glass - and you will see a large / vide place full of Death and Destruction - where more / plagues await de frequenters den contained in de famous Box

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"Cruel: A Glimpse into the Dark Side of Humanity" "Christmas Day in the Workhouse: An Unforgiving Reality" "Kettle Cat's Silent Suffering: Cruelty Behind Closed Doors" "Angry Gorilla Illustration: The Ferocity of Captivity" "Man Being Bit By Rats: A Gruesome Encounter with Desperation" "Performing Bear in a Russian Village, 1877: Exploitation for Entertainment" "Start of a Cock Fight: Bloodsport and Brutality Unveiled" "Pyrenean Woman Force-Feeding a Goose: Tradition or Torture?" "The Crickhowell Hunt, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales: Chasing Thrills at the Expense of Innocent Lives" "MOVE ON POLICE SATIRE: Exposing Cruelty Disguised as Authority and Control" "Mouse or Rat Trap? Late 19th or Early 20th Century: Instruments of Pain in the Name of Pest Control" "The Bullfight at Algeciras (w/c with bodycolour on paper): Spectacle or Savagery?" "Plate 25 from Los Caprichos : If he broke the pot (Si quebro el Cantaro. ), 1799.