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1.
Cuthbert Simpson tortured on the rack in the Tower of London [graphic].

Creator:
Neagle, John B., approximately 1796-1866, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830]
Call Number:
830.00.00.161
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, wearing only a loincloth, is shown being stretched on a rack. Two men, on the right and left edges of the image, work the mechanism of the torture device. Three men observe from the far side of the rack, the central figure wearing aristocratic ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
J.J. Woodward
Subject (Name):
Tower of London (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Martyrs, Punishment & torture, and Punishment devices
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Cuthbert Simpson tortured on the rack in the Tower of London [graphic].

2.
Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the church, with an

Creator:
Foxe, John, 1516-1587
Published / Created:
1583.
Call Number:
Mey34 F83 +1583 1
Image Count:
13
Description:
BEIN Mey34 F83 +1583: Fully described in Check-list of Huntington library, p. 150. Does not repeat signature HHH.
Publisher:
John Daye
Subject (Topic):
Martyrs, Persecution, and Church history
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the church, with an universall history of the same ...

3.
Actes and monuments of these latter and perillous dayes, touching matters of the church, wherein ar

Creator:
Foxe, John, 1516-1587
Published / Created:
Anno. 1563, the 20. of March]
Call Number:
Mey34 F83 +1563
Image Count:
14
Description:
BEIN Mey34 F83 +1563: Imperfect: t.p., dedication, calendar, and almanac (quire *6), and colophon-leaf (VVVV4) wanting and supplied in facsimile; woodcut mounted on E1 wanting and replaced by the one from the 1570 edition; some leaves frayed and repa...
Publisher:
by Iohn Day, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, [beneth Saynt Martins
Subject (Topic):
Martyrs, Persecution, and Church history
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Actes and monuments of these latter and perillous dayes, touching matters of the church, wherein ar comprehended and described the great persecutions ... wrought ... by the Romishe prelates

4.
John Badby burnt in a tun [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1830]
Call Number:
830.00.00.160
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Badby is shown in a barrel surrounded by flaming faggots, with Henry Prince of Wales standing in the right foreground and a cleric holding up a small disc on the left. A crucifix hangs on an outside wall in the background
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
J.J. Woodward
Subject (Name):
Badby, John, -1410., Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422., and Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
Subject (Topic):
Martyrs, Burning at the stake, Crucifixes, and Clergy
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Badby burnt in a tun [graphic].

5.
R. P. Gvlielmvs Irlandvs Societatis Iesv Sacerdos [graphic].

Published / Created:
[10 August 1805]
Call Number:
805.08.10.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of William Ireland, half-length, in an oval lettered with the title, slightly turned to the left, with a mantle about his shoulders, a rope about his neck and a knife embedded in his chest, the Christogram in a laurel frame below upon a para...
Alternative Title:
R. P. Gulielmus Irlandus Societatis Iesu Sacerdos
Description:
Title from text in oval border of portrait.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aug. 10, 1805, by Wm. Richardson, York House, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Ireland, William, 1636-1679, and Jesuits
Subject (Topic):
Martyrs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > R. P. Gvlielmvs Irlandvs Societatis Iesv Sacerdos [graphic].

7.
The rebellion displayed most humbly inscribed to his sacred Majesty King George. [graphic]

Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament 1 Nov. 1748.
Call Number:
748.11.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left James II, seated on a throne of "hereditary right" and holding manacles, turns left to shake the hand of a monk who tramples on an open volume labeled "Holy Bible". From under the throne dragons or serpents devour the "Magna Carta", "Toler...
Description:
Title engraved in cartouche below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
James II, King of England, 1633-1701, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, and Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Animals, Clergy, Demons, Justice, Martyrs, Monks, Shackles, and Enslaved people
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The rebellion displayed most humbly inscribed to his sacred Majesty King George. [graphic]

9.
[Copies of limnings in the Harleian manuscript of John Lydgate's Life of King Edmund and others on

Published / Created:
[not before 1720?]
Call Number:
Quarto 49 3505
Image Count:
23
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Nine drawings, four copies of drawings of limnings in the Harleian copy of John Lydgate's Life of King Edmund and five drawings, four on vellum, from Froissart's Chronicle, mounted on leaves and bound in old vellum. Most drawings with contemporary cap...
Description:
Title from Hazen catalogue.
Subject (Name):
Edmund, King of East Anglia, 841-870., Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, and Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?
Subject (Topic):
Martyrs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Copies of limnings in the Harleian manuscript of John Lydgate's Life of King Edmund and others on vellum from a manuscript of Froissart's Chronicle] [art original].

10.
[Soldiers and prisoner] [art original]

Published / Created:
[not after 1806]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B935 805 folder 46 Box 5
Collection Title:
[Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Ink drawing depicting a prisoner, possibly Saint Laurence of Rome, about to be burned over coals by Roman soldiers. The prisoner's hands are bound behind his back and he is naked apart from a loin cloth; a soldier on foot grasps him from behind while ...
Description:
Title from local catalog card.
Subject (Name):
Laurence, Saint, of Rome, -258.
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Roman, and Martyrs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Soldiers and prisoner] [art original]