Hanged Gallery

A man and woman embrace under a hanged man

A man and woman embrace under a hanged man. The widow of Ephesus and the sentinel canoodle under her husband's corpse hanging from a gibbet. The Ephesian matron. Le matrone d'Ephise. From the Satyricon. Lithograph after an illustration by Charles Martin from Jean de la Fontaine's Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, Tales and Novellas in Verse, Libraire de France, Paris, 1930

© Florilegius

Jonathan Wild

Engraving depicting Jonathan Wild in the cart. Jonathan Wild, (1682/83-1725), was a London underworld figure. He became a manipulator of legal systems, collecting the rewards offered for valuables which he had stolen himself, bribing prison guards to release his colleagues, and blackmailing any who crossed him. He was responsible for the arrest and execution of Jack Sheppard, a petty thief and burglar who had won the publics affection as a lovable rogue. However, Wilds duplicity became known, and his men began to give evidence against him. After a suicide attempt, he was hanged at Tyburn

© Mary Evans / Peter & Dawn Cope Collection Mary Evans / Peter & Dawn Cope Collection

Puerto Cabelo, Venezuela - Plaza del Aguila

Puerto Cabelo, Venezuela - Plaza del Aguila. The Monumento del Aguila honours the American volunteers who were captured in Francisco Miranda's failed attempt to land in Ocumare in 1806. Ten of the officers were hanged, 53 others were imprisoned - the Eagle is in fact a condor. Date: circa 1930s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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