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19: Prison Ship
Located in Columbia, MO
love of drawing and the art of engraving at a young age and perfected his passion over the years
Category

1820s Naturalistic Antique Prison Art

Materials

Etching

Angel Leading St. Peter from Prison, 17th century
By Anonymous Caravagesque
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
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17th Century Modern Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Rococò French painter - 18th century figure painting - Joseph Interior prisons
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (18th century) - The prison. 84 x 105cm. Antique oil painting on canvas, without
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Francis I King of France Prisoned in Madrid - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Francis I King of France prisoned in Madrid Visited by Charles V is a lithograph on paper realized
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1860s Modern Antique Prison Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Old Prison Hulk at Sunset on the Medway, England and other shipping Oil Painting
Located in ludlow, GB
shipping and the Prison Hulks that were moored around Portsmouth and the South Coast of England.
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19th Century Victorian Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Prison - Original Drawing by Amédée Auguste Desmoulins - Late-19 Century
Located in Roma, IT
Tasso in His Prison is an Original ink and watercolor drawing realized by Amédée Auguste Desmoulins
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Late 19th Century Modern Antique Prison Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

The Pope and the Prison - Original China Ink by Gabriele Galantara - 1910
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
The prison is an original drawing in China ink and white lead on creamy cardboard realized by
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1910s Modern Antique Prison Art

Materials

Ink

1930s Deer Lodge Prison Horsehair Quirt
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Deer Lodge Prison quirt with orange, black, and white dyed horsehair and leather hand strap and
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Early 20th Century American Antique Prison Art

Materials

Other

1930s Deer Lodge Prison Horsehair Quirt
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Deer Lodge Prison quirt with red, black, and white dyed horsehair and horsehair hand strap. Quirt
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Early 20th Century American Antique Prison Art

Materials

Other

19th Century Walla Walla Prison Horse Bit Collection
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Collection of seven Walla Walla prison made bits. All silver overlaid but unique from each other
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Late 19th Century American Antique Prison Art

Materials

Hide, Leather

Joseph interpreting Dreams - Italian Old Master 17thC religious art oil painting
Located in London, GB
is Joseph in prison interpreting the dreams of Pharoah's Baker and Butler. The bars of the cell can
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17th Century Old Masters Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

19th Century English Folk Art Gentleman’s Cane
Located in London, GB
19th Century English Folk Art Gentleman’s Cane A rare and quite special example of a 19th
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1850s British Folk Art Antique Prison Art

Materials

Wood

Madonna and Child- Italian Old Master religious art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
. However, after a short spell in prison because of his disorderly conduct he left Parma for Modena, where
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Early 1700s Old Masters Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Large Antique English Trench Art Table Cannon
Located in Forney, TX
prison, when trench art left conflict it gradually became this anonymously created, tangible memory of
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Early 20th Century European Folk Art Antique Prison Art

Materials

Brass, Bronze, Copper

Artist in his Studio - French 19th century art figurative interior oil painting
By Adolphe Monticelli
Located in London, GB
himself singlemindedly to his art. The young Paul Cézanne befriended Monticelli in the 1860s, and the
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19th Century Realist Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Italian Arch - Old Master British art Italian landscape and ruins through arch
By (Circle of) Hubert Robert
Located in London, GB
Bastille prison during the French Revolution. Imprisoned himself, he narrowly escaped the guillotine and
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18th Century Old Masters Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Portrait of Mrs James Hoste - British 18th century art portrait oil painting
By John Vanderbank
Located in London, GB
James Thornhill's art academy in Great Queen Street from 1711 until 1720, when he joined with Louis
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18th Century Old Masters Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Cat and Dog - Victorian genre 1884 animal art oil painting
By Carl Suhrlandt
Located in London, GB
a professor at the Art Academy. Most of his paintings depict animals with a preference for horses
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19th Century Victorian Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Il Supplì - Vintage Art Magazine - 1912
Located in Roma, IT
inspired by two humorous war newspapers: the first La Baracca, produced in a prison camp in Katzenau in
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1910s Antique Prison Art

Materials

Offset

La Loge (The Lodge) /// Post-Impressionist Figurative French Paris People Art
By Louis Legrand
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
-Arts. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts was a French art review, found in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with
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1910s Post-Impressionist Antique Prison Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching, Intaglio

Full Rigged Ship GATHERER
By Alexander Charles Stuart
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Watts six years in Folsom Prison for cruelty on the high seas. While the dark names stuck, she proved to
Category

1870s Other Art Style Antique Prison Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Capture of St. Thomas Aquinas Oil on Canvas Italy XVII Century
Located in Milan, IT
convince him, almost begging him. The figures are also placed in a prison, as indicated by the bars in the
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17th Century Other Art Style Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Banquet Attrib to Van Den Hoecke Religious Oil on Table Old Master 17th Century
By Gaspar van den Hoecke (Antwerp, 1585 - 1648)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
a barren prison with barred windows, in clear contrast to the situation of opulence in the first
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17th Century Old Masters Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Blaubart und Miss Ilsebill - Rare Book Illustrated by Johann Rabus- 1923
Located in Roma, IT
and had to spend some time in the Vienna City Prison. After various art exhibitions organized by Hans
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Early 20th Century Modern Antique Prison Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Quiz. The Grand Master -Illustrated Book by Thomas Rowlandson - 1816
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in Roma, IT
chiefly within the "rules" of the King's Bench Prison. He is chiefly remembered as the author of The Three
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1810s Modern Antique Prison Art

Materials

Paper

The English Dance of Death - The Dance of Life by Thomas Rowlandson - 1810s
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in Roma, IT
chiefly within the "rules" of the King's Bench Prison. He is chiefly remembered as the author of The Three
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1810s Modern Antique Prison Art

Materials

Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Original 1895 poster by Steinlen - De Mazas à Jérusalem par Zo d'Axa
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in PARIS, FR
ideas. The juxtaposition of the mundane (represented by the reference to Mazas, a prison in Paris) with
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1890s Art Nouveau Antique Prison Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Prisoner of war straw-work ark
Located in London, GB
famously defeated at Waterloo. In 1796, the first prison to house French prisoners of war was built at
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1850s French Folk Art Antique Prison Art

Materials

Straw, Pine

Prisoner of war straw-work ark
Prisoner of war straw-work ark
H 9 in W 15 in D 7 in
Flora surrounded by her nymphs, in a landscape of ancient ruins. Il Mascacotta
By Gennaro Greco
Located in Brooklyn, NY
and other magnificent constructions and made superb underground places and imaginary prisons with
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Late 17th Century Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Hide n seek Home Scene w Grandma Russian early 20th Century Oil Genre Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
, and was then imprisoned for three years in Solovki prison camp, while his art collections, including
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Early 20th Century Realist Antique Prison Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cotton Canvas, Wood

Joseph and Potiphar
By Jacques-Louis David
Located in Tricase, IT
wanting to rape her and he was put in prison. The painting was created by an important artist from
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Early 19th Century Academic Antique Prison Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Joseph and Potiphar
Joseph and Potiphar
H 34.65 in W 28.35 in
A farmstead in a landscape
By George Morland
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
being drunk and in hiding from his creditors, or in prison. His name is particularly associated with
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18th Century English School Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

A farmstead in a landscape
A farmstead in a landscape
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H 22 in W 28 in
Ponza Island - Oil on Canvas - 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Very rare view of Ponza Island from the part of the Molo. This is a very rare and fine work of art
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18th Century Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Rue de Paris - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Maximillien Luce
By Maximilien Luce
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
), which earned him a prison sentence. These events inspired a collection of lithographs entitled Mazas. He
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Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Prison Art

Materials

Board, Oil

c. 1800 Shepherd & Milk Maid with Cattle Pastoral Landscape Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
where he was in prison in 1811. He is recorded as living at 72, Oxford Street in 1801. He was a friend
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"View in Gent" Piet Lippens (Belgian, 1890-1981) circa 1920s
Located in SANTA FE, NM
to be his best, utilize a darker pallet depicting factories, slums, barracks, prisons, shipyards
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1920s Realist Antique Prison Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Lady Anne Tipping née Cheke c.1705, English Aristocratic Collection
By Kneller Godfrey
Located in London, GB
Titan Fine Art present this exquisite portrait, that formed part of a historic collection of an
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18th Century Old Masters Antique Prison Art

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Canvas, Oil

In the forest. Oil on cardboard, 17x25 cm
By Indrikis Zeberins
Located in Riga, LV
graphic art, his thematic was a patriarchal peasants lives depicting, image of his persona’s are humorous
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Early 20th Century Realist Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

The Junkman's Serenade oil painting by Gregorio Prestopino
By Gregorio Prestopino
Located in Hudson, NY
Gallery, at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art. His work was frequently shown at the
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Early 20th Century Modern Antique Prison Art

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Oil, Canvas

The White Horse An English Genre Painting by George Morland 18th Century
By George Morland
Located in Lincoln, GB
and often being drunk and in hiding from his creditors, or in prison. His name is particularly
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Early 1700s Realist Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Pair Antique Oil Paintings Scottish Highland Loch Scenes G. F. Buchanan 1872
Located in Portland, OR
in 1861 was imprisoned at the ‘Debtor’s Prison for London and Middlesex’, when his estate and effects
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1870s Realist Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Oedipus leaves Thebes guided by Antigone
Located in Pasadena, CA
, exhibited at the Salon of French Artists that he will not leave. In 1905, his Joan of Arc in his prison
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1860s Romantic Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Oedipus leaves Thebes guided by Antigone
Oedipus leaves Thebes guided by Antigone
H 22.84 in W 31.11 in D 1.19 in
Place de la Bastille Paris, 1928 - Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
, no legend. Note: The Place de la Bastille is a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood
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1920s Art Deco Antique Prison Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Original early 20th Century German signed lithograph by Marcus Behmer
By Marcus Behmer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
has many similarities with his private life and incarceration in prison. These works were a personal
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Antique Prison Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mary Beale (circle) Portrait Painting of Sir John Pettus
By (Circle of) Mary Beale
Located in York, GB
, but was exchanged after nearly a year in prison. It is unlikely that he resumed command of his
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17th Century Old Masters Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Frenchman Bay, Mount Desert Island, Maine
By Charles Henry Gifford
Located in Concord, MA
prison. While the young man learned the trades of ship-building and shoemaking before the war, Gifford
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19th Century Abstract Impressionist Antique Prison Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Forest Clearing
By Roswell Morse Shurtleff
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
spent eight months in a southern prison, after which he returned to New York and Hartford and worked as
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Antique Prison Art

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Oil, Canvas

En passant (Passing by)
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Prison Art

Materials

Drypoint

La Negresse (The Negress)
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Prison Art

Materials

Etching

A L'Ombre (In Shadow)
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Prison Art

Materials

Etching

L'Aieule (The Grandmother)
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Prison Art

Materials

Aquatint

La Toilette
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Prison Art

Materials

Drypoint

Danseuses s'habillant (Laurence adjusting her hair and Mignon adjusting clothes
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2
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1890s Art Nouveau Antique Prison Art

Materials

Aquatint

Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Early 17th Century Portrait
Located in London, GB
after a short spell in Fleet Prison. His illegitimate son died shortly after being born. Despite being a
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Antique Prison Art

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

Lady Dormore - A 16th Century Portrait of a key member of Shakespeare's England
Located in London, GB
marriage and consigned Elizabeth Vernon, one of her chief ladies-in-waiting, to the Fleet Prison for
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16th Century Old Masters Antique Prison Art

Materials

Oil

Model of a War Sailing Ship, Made Out of Bone, United Kingdom, 1793-1815
Located in Milan, IT
in British prisons, during the Napoleonic Wars, which took place from 1793 to 1815 and the following
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1790s English Antique Prison Art

Materials

Bone

Piper Indicum. Spanish Pepper.
By Elizabeth Blackwell
Located in Florham Park, NJ
prison, where ironically he was serving time after suffering great financial ruin in the printing
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Antique Prison Art

Materials

Engraving

Amygdalus. (Almond)
By Elizabeth Blackwell
Located in Florham Park, NJ
prison, where ironically he was serving time after suffering great financial ruin in the printing
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Antique Prison Art

Materials

Watercolor, Engraving

Cinara. Artichoke.
By Elizabeth Blackwell
Located in Florham Park, NJ
prison, where ironically he was serving time after suffering great financial ruin in the printing
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Antique Prison Art

Materials

Engraving

Antique Burmese Mandalay Period Buddhist Dancer Nat Spirit Deer Figure Sculpture
Located in Forney, TX
, Japan, where he was found guilty of tax evasion, sentenced to four years in prison and had his assets
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Late 19th Century Burmese Antique Prison Art

Materials

Wood, Art Glass, Teak, Giltwood

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