Isaac Cruikshank - Royal recreation, British Cartoon Print
Cartoon shows Catherine II seated on a throne receiving the decapitated heads of the people of Poland from the military officer in charge of the Russian forces during the defeat of Poles in 1794; other men brin... More
Supreme head of the Church and some other heads
(DLC/PP-1936:0089). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889, p. 249.
"La tete decapitee" every afternoon & eve'g. : all other entertainment...
E6267 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "S. Booth, Pictorial Engraver and Printer, 201 Centre Street, New York." Poster contains only text. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Hell broke loose, or, The murder of Louis, vide, the account of that u...
Print shows the execution of Louis XVI, King of France, January 21, 1793, by guillotine as citizen Louis Capet. Devils stand on the platform as well as fly overhead, suggesting that the beheading of Louis, with... More
Le calculateur patriote - A man sitting in a chair reading a book
Print shows an accountant sitting at a desk on which are six severed heads, recording a tally of the heads taken and the number that remain due. Henderson, pl. 27 de Vinck, 1615/1616 Blum, 566 Forms part of: F... More
Les formes acerbes / Me. Poirier de Dunkerque, avocat, invt., publié l...
Print shows Joseph Le Bon, as a shirtless, crazed madman, standing on a pile of decapitated bodies between two guillotines, he is drinking blood from a chalice as he fills another chalice with the blood spewing... More
Mr. Doughty beheaded by order of Sir Francis Drake, at Port St. Julian...
Print shows the 1578 beheading of Thomas Doughty in Port St. Julian, Patagonia, during Drake's circumnavigation voyage.
![[Zan Zig performing in four magic vignettes]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4OTkvMDEvMDEvemFuLXppZy1wZXJmb3JtaW5nLWluLWZvdXItbWFnaWMtdmlnbmV0dGVzLTEwMjQuanBn/40/55/webp "[Zan Zig performing in four magic vignettes]")
[Zan Zig performing in four magic vignettes]
Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph
C252447 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 7647. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)
Le calculateur patriote - A drawing of a man sitting at a table
Print shows an accountant sitting at a desk on which are six severed heads, recording a tally of the heads taken and the number that remain due. Henderson, pl. 27 de Vinck, 1615/1616 Blum, 566 Forms part of: F... More
Prise de la Bastille par les Citoyens de Paris...; C'est ainsi que l'o...
Citizens with guns and pikes outside of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, and heads of "traitors" being carried on pikes. Translated titles: The taking of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris...; The traitors are ... More
L'Ordre et la marche des puissances coalisees contre la France / compo...
Print shows an allegorical female figure riding in a chariot drawn by mules with the crowned heads of kings of various European countries; it is following three hags leading the way to the temple of folly in th... More
Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph
C252447 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 7647. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)
Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph
C252448 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 7754. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)
Pere-scie / AB ; lith. de Becquet, rue Childebert No. 9.
Print shows Jean-Charles Persil wearing minister's robes, with long saw-toothed nose with which he attempts to decapitate Charles Philipon who is lying on a stack of "La Caricatura" volumes with his hands bound... More
Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph
Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Larger version of poster with slightly different imprint: POS - MAG - .K44, no. 6a (D size). N.Y. no.... More
Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph
Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 8107. Smaller version of poster with slightly different imprint: POS - MAG - .K44, no. 6 (C ... More
C'est ainsi qu'on se venge des traitres
French soldiers or militia carrying the heads of the Marquis de Launay and Jacques de Flesselles on pikes, who were killed on July 14, 1789, following the taking of the Bastille.
The National barber - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows a sailor, identitied elsewhere as Samuel W. Dewey, having sawn the head of Andrew Jackson off the figurehead of the U.S.S. Constitution, passes it to another sailor awaiting in a rowboat alongside t... More
Mort de Louis XVI, le 21 janvier 1793 Place de la Concorde - on voit à...
Louis XVI being led to the guillotine at the time of his execution. Extrait des Révolutions de Paris. In album: French Revolution. Forms part of: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress).
Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain dedication image
C252448 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 7754. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)
General Swallow-all-o feasting on a French fricassee!!, British Cartoo...
Print shows a gigantic Russian soldier, possibly a gross caricature of Field Marshal Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Suvorov, eating the severed head of a French soldier, another oversized man, a chef, holds a platter co... More
Mort affreuse de Louis XVI, le plus vertueux et le plus infortuné de m...
The execution of Louis XVI by France. John Davis Batchelder Collection. No. 87.
Morte di Beatrice e di sua madre
Print shows the beheading of Beatrice Cenci and her mother in the presence of her young brother, on the left, who appears to have fainted. Title from contents on title page. Printed in upper right corner: 9. (D... More
Isaac Cruikshank - Royal recreation, British Cartoon Print
Cartoon shows Catherine II seated on a throne receiving the decapitated heads of the people of Poland from the military officer in charge of the Russian forces during the defeat of Poles in 1794; other men brin... More
Sarasikubi no zu - Public domain drawing
Drawing shows a head resting on a small platform on a post and a body sprawled on the ground, with blood gushing from the neck; a bound prisoner kneels nearby. Title and other descriptive information compiled b... More
"La tete decapitee" every afternoon & eve'g. : all other entertainment...
E6267 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "S. Booth, Pictorial Engraver and Printer, 201 Centre Street, New York." Poster contains only text. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
"Touché!" - Public domain portrait drawing
Print shows two men fencing, one slices the head off the other while saying, "touché!" Illus. in: Thurber's men, women and dogs : a book of drawings / with a preface by Dorothy Parker. New York : Harcourt, Br... More
![Execution of Robert Emmet in Thomas Street, [Dublin], 20th September 1803](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTMvZXhlY3V0aW9uLW9mLXJvYmVydC1lbW1ldC1pbi10aG9tYXMtc3RyZWV0LWR1Ymxpbi0yMHRoLXNlcHRlbWJlci0xODAzLTE1MDFkZC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "Execution of Robert Emmet in Thomas Street, [Dublin], 20th September 1803")
Execution of Robert Emmet in Thomas Street, [Dublin], 20th September 1...
Scene following the beheading of Robert Emmet, Dublin, 1803, with mounted soldiers overseeing the horrified spectators. J3448 U.S. Copyright Office. Caption: "When my country takes her place, among the nations ... More
Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph
Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 8107. Smaller version of poster with slightly different imprint: POS - MAG - .K44, no. 6 (C ... More
Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph
C252448 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 7754. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)
Stalwart stupidity / F. Graetz., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows Puck, holding his lithographic pen, and the Independent Party figure, holding an axe labeled "November Election", standing inside a cabin next to the head of Roscoe Conkling that has been cut... More
![[Hand holding five men's heads, and letter I]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MjMvMDEvMDEvaGFuZC1ob2xkaW5nLWZpdmUtbWVucy1oZWFkcy1hbmQtbGV0dGVyLWktNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/46/webp "[Hand holding five men's heads, and letter I]")
[Hand holding five men's heads, and letter I]
Title devised by cataloger. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Hymn of Hate," Life, 82:8 (Nov. 15, 1923).
Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph
C252448 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 7754. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)
Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph
Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Larger version of poster with slightly different imprint: POS - MAG - .K44, no. 6a (D size). N.Y. no.... More
Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph
C252447 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 7647. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)
Messieurs Delaunay, Flexelles, Berthier, Foulon, et les deux Gardes du...
Print shows Charon accepting the baker Sr. Remy, mistakenly beheaded, into his boat while rejecting several government officials and guardsmen, all who carry their severed heads atop pikes; on the opposite shor... More
The near in blood, the nearer bloody
Print shows the Duke of Orleans dressed as a ragged sansculotte, holding an axe over the head of Louis XVI which rests on a chopping block, while Marie Antoinette pleads for him to show a "touch of pity."
Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph
C252448 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 7754. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)
Sarasikubi no zu - Public domain drawing
Drawing shows a head resting on a small platform on a post and a body sprawled on the ground, with blood gushing from the neck; a bound prisoner kneels nearby. Title and other descriptive information compiled b... More
Bartolomeo Coriolano - Herodiade / Corio. s. 17th century
Print shows Herodiade and Salome with the severed head of St. John the Baptist. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, ... More
![[L'Ordre et la marche des puissances coalisees contre la France] / composé et gravé par J.B. Louvion.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3OTMvMDEvMDEvbG9yZHJlLWV0LWxhLW1hcmNoZS1kZXMtcHVpc3NhbmNlcy1jb2FsaXNlZXMtY29udHJlLWxhLWZyYW5jZS1jb21wb3NlLWV0LWdyYXZlLTEwMjQuanBn/40/27/webp "[L'Ordre et la marche des puissances coalisees contre la France] / composé et gravé par J.B. Louvion.")
[L'Ordre et la marche des puissances coalisees contre la France] / com...
Print shows an allegorical female figure riding in a chariot drawn by mules with the crowned heads of kings of various European countries; it is following three hags leading the way to the temple of folly in th... More
After the execution, Canton prison, China
Decapitated heads scattered on the ground. H3471 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.W. Kilburn. No. 14358.
Prise de la Bastille par les Citoyens de Paris...; C'est ainsi que l'o...
Citizens with guns and pikes outside of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, and heads of "traitors" being carried on pikes. Translated titles: The taking of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris...; The traitors are ... More
![[Portraits of the executioner of Kanagawa with sword and prisoner, the head of Hayashida Tciken, and Chinese women, including one from "Foochau"]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDIvcG9ydHJhaXRzLW9mLXRoZS1leGVjdXRpb25lci1vZi1rYW5hZ2F3YS13aXRoLXN3b3JkLWFuZC1wcmlzb25lci10aGUtaGVhZC1vZi1mYmMwYWUtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/45/webp "[Portraits of the executioner of Kanagawa with sword and prisoner, the head of Hayashida Tciken, and Chinese women, including one from \"Foochau\"]")
[Portraits of the executioner of Kanagawa with sword and prisoner, the...
Captions on front of item: "Executioner of Kanagawa" (upper left); [no caption] (upper right); "Chinese women" (lower left); and "Foochau woman" (lower right). Captions on back of item: "Executioner of Kanagaw... More
C'est ainsi qu'on se venge des traitres
French soldiers or militia carrying the heads of the Marquis de Launay and Jacques de Flesselles on pikes, who were killed on July 14, 1789, following the taking of the Bastille.
Pere-scie / AB ; lith. de Becquet, rue Childebert No. 9.
Print shows Jean-Charles Persil wearing minister's robes, with long saw-toothed nose with which he attempts to decapitate Charles Philipon who is lying on a stack of "La Caricatura" volumes with his hands bound... More
The historical painter, British Cartoon Print
Print shows Charles James Fox as Oliver Cromwell depicted as an artist painting the execution of Charles I, Justice stands behind him with her sword raised ready to strike, hanging on the wall in the background... More
The hopes of the party, prior to July 14th "from such wicked crown & a...
Satire on the dinner at the Crown and Anchor tavern and on the radicals who extolled the French Revolution. Charles James Fox raises an axe to strike the neck of George III, whose head is held by Sheridan, and ... More
Je tient mon pied du bœuf - il faut faire trois choses Le calculateur ...
Print shows (on the left) an aristocrat and a clergyman, each with a hand on a low post, and a member of the Third Estate placing both of his hands on top of the others. "Pied de Bœuf" is a pun on "Œil de Bœuf"... More
A harmless pastime-- - Public domain dedication image
Man with shield, "[...]cinnati [...]ercial Gazette," is possibly Murat Halstead; man with spear is Senator John Logan. Title continues on verso: The celebrated Logan-Halstead combination in their world-renowned... More
The hopes of the party, prior to July 14th "from such wicked crown & a...
Satire on the dinner at the Crown and Anchor tavern and on the radicals who extolled the French Revolution. Charles James Fox raises an axe to strike the neck of George III, whose head is held by Sheridan, and ... More