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A L'Ombre (In Shadow)
A L'Ombre (In Shadow)

A L'Ombre (In Shadow)

By Louis Legrand

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short pri...

Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Prison

Materials

Etching

L'Aieule (The Grandmother)
L'Aieule (The Grandmother)

L'Aieule (The Grandmother)

By Louis Legrand

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short pri...

Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Prison

Materials

Aquatint

La Toilette
La Toilette

La Toilette

By Louis Legrand

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short pri...

Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Prison

Materials

Drypoint

Swainson's Warbler: A Framed Original Hand-colored Audubon Folio Bird Engraving
Swainson's Warbler: A Framed Original Hand-colored Audubon Folio Bird Engraving

Swainson's Warbler: A Framed Original Hand-colored Audubon Folio Bird Engraving

By John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

He was initially unsuccessful financially prior to the publication of his famous work “The Birds of America”, spending time in debtor’s prison, once stabbing a disgruntled investor i...

Category

Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Antique Prison

Materials

Engraving

Antique Sèvres Porcelain Charger of Louis XVI, 19th Century
Antique Sèvres Porcelain Charger of Louis XVI, 19th Century

Antique Sèvres Porcelain Charger of Louis XVI, 19th Century

Located in London, GB

Rumours that the king intended to suppress the assembly provoked the popular storming of the Bastille prison, a symbol of repressive royal power, on 14 July 1789.

Category

1850s French Antique Prison

Materials

Ormolu

"American Oyster Catcher": An Original Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
"American Oyster Catcher": An Original Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph

"American Oyster Catcher": An Original Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph

By After John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

He was initially unsuccessful financially prior to the publication of his famous work “The Birds of America”, spending time in debtor’s prison, once stabbing a disgruntled investor i...

Category

Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Antique Prison

Materials

Lithograph

Very Fine French 19th Century White Marble Bust of a Young Beauty by René Rozet
Very Fine French 19th Century White Marble Bust of a Young Beauty by René Rozet

Very Fine French 19th Century White Marble Bust of a Young Beauty by René Rozet

By René Rozet 1

Located in Los Angeles, CA

After the revolutionaries placed the royal family under house arrest in Paris, an attempt to flee (the flight to Varennes) had disastrous effects on French popular opinion: Louis XVI...

Category

19th Century French Rococo Antique Prison

Materials

Carrara Marble, Siena Marble

Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934), Henri Rochefort for a duel, drawing
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934), Henri Rochefort for a duel, drawing

Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934), Henri Rochefort for a duel, drawing

By Pierre Georges Jeanniot

Located in Paris, FR

A great polemicist in the pages of his newspapers (La Lanterne, La Marseillaise, L'Intransigeant), he defended radical, even extremist political views (anticlerical, nationalist, pro...

Category

1870s Romantic Antique Prison

Materials

Carbon Pencil

Carved Spanish Oak Writing Cabinet, Estate of Vincente Blasco Ibanez
Carved Spanish Oak Writing Cabinet, Estate of Vincente Blasco Ibanez

Carved Spanish Oak Writing Cabinet, Estate of Vincente Blasco Ibanez

Located in Dallas, TX

In 1896, he was arrested and sentenced to a few months in prison. He made many enemies and was shot and almost killed in one dispute.

Category

16th Century Spanish Renaissance Antique Prison

Materials

Oak

circa 1845 C Hindley & Sons Lion Carved Chesterfield Brown Leather Dining Chairs
circa 1845 C Hindley & Sons Lion Carved Chesterfield Brown Leather Dining Chairs

circa 1845 C Hindley & Sons Lion Carved Chesterfield Brown Leather Dining Chairs

By Chesterfield, Charles Hindley & Sons

Located in West Sussex, Pulborough

Jobs ranged from supplying Pentonville Prison with 100 hair mattresses and pillows, to altering spring roller blinds, to fulfilling private commissions with suites of parlour furnitu...

Category

1840s English Early Victorian Antique Prison

Materials

Leather, Hardwood

Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Early 17th Century Portrait
Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Early 17th Century Portrait

Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Early 17th Century Portrait

Located in London, GB

This period of his life too was imbued with personal sadness, as an illicit affair with a Mary Fitton had resulted in a pregnancy and eventual banishment by Elizabeth I to Wilton aft...

Category

Early 17th Century Old Masters Antique Prison

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

19th century Prison Windows - mirrored glass

19th century Prison Windows - mirrored glass

Located in London, GB

Iron Prison Windows from Bangor (Wales) jail - mirrored glass added

Category

19th Century British Antique Prison

Materials

Iron

Collection of Vintage Prison Weapons and Shivs

Collection of Vintage Prison Weapons and Shivs

Located in Chicago, IL

Collection of vintage prison weapons and shivs.

Category

Early 20th Century American Folk Art Antique Prison

Materials

Metal

Joseph, the Cupbearer and the Baker in Prison
Joseph, the Cupbearer and the Baker in Prison

Joseph, the Cupbearer and the Baker in Prison

Located in Salt Lake City, UT

The King of Egypt, angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Josep...

Category

17th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Prison

Materials

Canvas

"Prison Hulk & Shipping off the Portsmouth Coast" Oil on Canvas, George Gregory
"Prison Hulk & Shipping off the Portsmouth Coast" Oil on Canvas, George Gregory

"Prison Hulk & Shipping off the Portsmouth Coast" Oil on Canvas, George Gregory

By George Gregory

Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire

George Gregory British, (1849-1938) Prison Hulk & Shipping off the Portsmouth Coast Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1898 Image size: 13 inches x 20 inches Size including frame:...

Category

19th Century English Victorian Antique Prison

Materials

Canvas

French Folk Art "Prison Art" Matchstick Inlaid Planter With A Star, circa 1930
French Folk Art "Prison Art" Matchstick Inlaid Planter With A Star, circa 1930

French Folk Art "Prison Art" Matchstick Inlaid Planter With A Star, circa 1930

Located in Antwerp, BE

This genre of Folk Art is referred to as "tramp" or "prison" art. As you can imagine the person who made this had plenty of time on their hands!

Category

Early 20th Century French Antique Prison

Materials

Pine

Carved Bone Dieppe Mirror
Carved Bone Dieppe Mirror

Carved Bone Dieppe Mirror

Unavailable|$4,850

Carved Bone Dieppe Mirror

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Italian carved bone from a prison beveled mirror on wooden frame covered in red velvet

Category

19th Century Italian Antique Prison

Materials

Bone, Wood, Glass, Velvet

Set of Eight Engravings "A Rake's Progress" by William Hogarth
Set of Eight Engravings "A Rake's Progress" by William Hogarth

Set of Eight Engravings "A Rake's Progress" by William Hogarth

Located in New York, NY

The morality tale follows Tom Rackwell, a young man who inherits money and through lack of experience and misguided influences makes a series of roguish decisions that ultimately lea...

Category

Early 19th Century British Antique Prison

Materials

Lacquer, Paper

Pair of “return from Egypt” torch holders , attributed to Agostino Fantastici
Pair of “return from Egypt” torch holders , attributed to Agostino Fantastici

Pair of “return from Egypt” torch holders , attributed to Agostino Fantastici

Located in Walkertshofen, BY

The first years of activity included the prison in the former convent of Santa Marta (1811), the conversion of the convent of Sant'Agostino to the Liceo (1811), the church of San Sal...

Category

19th Century Italian Empire Antique Prison

Materials

Wood, Mahogany

The Liberation of Saint Peter

The Liberation of Saint Peter

By Hernando de Avila

Located in Barcelona, ES

Hernando de Ávila (Attributed) The Liberation of Saint Peter Oil on wood 115 x 66 cm Toledo, around 1580-1600 This panel shows the Liberation of Saint Peter by the angel sent...

Category

18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Antique Prison

Materials

Oil, Wood

Set of Eight Black And White 1760's Engravings
Set of Eight Black And White 1760's Engravings

Set of Eight Black And White 1760's Engravings

Located in Santa Rosa, CA

Great set of Eight engravings from the 1760's with the following titles; Mad In Bedlam , Ruind At A Gaming Table, Confined in The Fleet Prison, Revelling with Harlots, Taking Possess...

Category

18th Century and Earlier English Antique Prison

19th Century French Straw Work Inlaid Folk Art Box
19th Century French Straw Work Inlaid Folk Art Box

19th Century French Straw Work Inlaid Folk Art Box

Located in Antwerp, BE

Straw work is most associated with the Folk Art genre call prison art. French prisoners of war could spend endless hours working with easily obtained materials such as match sticks a...

Category

Late 19th Century French Antique Prison

Materials

Straw

Portrait of a Woman with a Parrot, Painting Signed de Bornschlegel, 19th Century
Portrait of a Woman with a Parrot, Painting Signed de Bornschlegel, 19th Century

Portrait of a Woman with a Parrot, Painting Signed de Bornschlegel, 19th Century

Located in Paris, FR

In 1842, he exhibited "A lost recovery"; in 1847 "A girl with her first novel", in 1853 "Edinburgh prison"; in 1865 "The bracelet". Museum: Boulogne sur mer Cf. : Benezit, Volume I...

Category

1850s French Napoleon III Antique Prison

Materials

Canvas

Les adieux de Calas, a sa famille.

Les adieux de Calas, a sa famille.

By Daniel Chodowiecki

Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant

The old Calas is dying and says goodbye to his family and friends, in prison. A warden unlocks his ankle chains. 2 soldiers stands by the door, allowing the priest to enter.

Category

1760s Antique Prison

Materials

Engraving

The White Horse An English Genre Painting by George Morland 18th Century
The White Horse An English Genre Painting by George Morland 18th Century

The White Horse An English Genre Painting by George Morland 18th Century

By George Morland

Located in Lincoln, GB

George was a precocious child and a hard worker and produced a huge amount of works, in spite of leading a dissolute life and often being drunk and in hiding from his creditors, or i...

Category

Early 1700s Realist Antique Prison

Materials

Oil

Antique Indian Jail Dhurrie Rug
Antique Indian Jail Dhurrie Rug

Antique Indian Jail Dhurrie Rug

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

Jail Dhurrie’s were made in Indian prisons during British rule between 1860 and 1920.

Category

Early 20th Century Indian Other Antique Prison

Materials

Cotton

"On The Hudson" Folk Art Pencil Drawing by Haywood Wright
"On The Hudson" Folk Art Pencil Drawing by Haywood Wright

"On The Hudson" Folk Art Pencil Drawing by Haywood Wright

By Haywood Wright

Located in Solebury, PA

This wonderful, accurately detailed pencil drawing of the Sing Sing prison in Ossining , New York is suitably framed and just about as good as it gets for a American Folk Art d...

Category

19th Century American Folk Art Antique Prison

Materials

Pencil, Paper

Stained Glass Design for the Ascension of Christ
Stained Glass Design for the Ascension of Christ

Stained Glass Design for the Ascension of Christ

By Thomas William Camm

Located in Salt Lake City, UT

Below the apostles is another scene, depicting Peter's miraculous release from prison.

Category

19th Century English Gothic Revival Antique Prison

Materials

Watercolor

Fine Antique Indian Jail Agra
Fine Antique Indian Jail Agra

Fine Antique Indian Jail Agra

Located in Aspen, CO

It was woven under commission at the prison in Agra. These carpets were known as "Jail Agra".

Category

Early 20th Century Indian Antique Prison

Materials

Wool

Filial Piety

Filial Piety

By James Daniell

Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant

A young woman (Pero) feeds her father Cimon in a prison cell, while holding a baby. Very rare print.

Category

Late 18th Century Antique Prison

Materials

Mezzotint

19th Century Hand Painted Majolica Vase
19th Century Hand Painted Majolica Vase

19th Century Hand Painted Majolica Vase

Located in Liverpool, GB

In this case, the scene decorating the belly vase is probably an episode of the history of Joseph, described in the book of Genesis. Joseph, who was in prison, was brought before Pha...

Category

19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Prison

Materials

Majolica

Eberhard Wächter Antique Painting, circa 1795
Eberhard Wächter Antique Painting, circa 1795

Eberhard Wächter Antique Painting, circa 1795

By Eberhard Wächter

Located in Budapest, HU

While there he also painted a "Mater dolorosa", a "Caritas", and "Criton visiting Socrates in Prison". Wachter was a founder of the Brotherhood of St.

Category

1790s German Antique Prison

Materials

Canvas

Antique Agra
Antique Agra

Antique Agra

Unavailable|$24,500

Antique Agra

Located in Aspen, CO

The Indians also produced carpets in the prison in Agra which became known as the Jail Agra.

Category

Early 18th Century Indian Antique Prison

Materials

Wool

Pair of Richly Detailed 19th Century Bronze Vendome and July Columns, Paris
Pair of Richly Detailed 19th Century Bronze Vendome and July Columns, Paris

Pair of Richly Detailed 19th Century Bronze Vendome and July Columns, Paris

Located in Lafayette, CA

Surmounted by Alexander Dumont's Genius of Liberty, the Column stands at the center of the Place de la Bastille where the infamous prison, long demolished, was located. Here it is pa...

Category

Mid-19th Century French Grand Tour Antique Prison

Materials

Stone, Bronze

Honoré Daumier Painting ‘Travarsant Le Fosse’ Crossing the Ditch
Honoré Daumier Painting ‘Travarsant Le Fosse’ Crossing the Ditch

Honoré Daumier Painting ‘Travarsant Le Fosse’ Crossing the Ditch

By Honoré Daumier

Located in New York, NY

For his biting depictions of Emperor Louis-Philippe in the weekly journal La Caricature in 1832, Daumier spent six months in prison and began painting. After the state suppressed La ...

Category

Mid-19th Century French Antique Prison

Piper Indicum.  Spanish Pepper.

Piper Indicum. Spanish Pepper.

By Elizabeth Blackwell

Located in Florham Park, NJ

Elizabeth Blackwell undertook the publication of her herbal at the suggestion of Sir Hans Sloane in order to ransom her husband from debtor's prison, where ironically he was serving ...

Category

18th Century and Earlier Academic Antique Prison

Materials

Engraving

Cinara. Artichoke.

Cinara. Artichoke.

By Elizabeth Blackwell

Located in Florham Park, NJ

Elizabeth Blackwell undertook the publication of her herbal at the suggestion of Sir Hans Sloane in order to ransom her husband from debtor's prison, where ironically he was serving ...

Category

18th Century and Earlier Academic Antique Prison

Materials

Engraving

Amygdalus.  (Almond)
Amygdalus.  (Almond)

Amygdalus. (Almond)

By Elizabeth Blackwell

Located in Florham Park, NJ

Elizabeth Blackwell undertook the publication of her herbal at the suggestion of Sir Hans Sloane in order to ransom her husband from debtor's prison, where ironically he was serving ...

Category

18th Century and Earlier Academic Antique Prison

Materials

Engraving, Watercolor

Georgian Set of Hogarth's the Harlot's Progress
Georgian Set of Hogarth's the Harlot's Progress

Georgian Set of Hogarth's the Harlot's Progress

By William Hogarth

Located in London, GB

Plate four: Moll is in Bridewell Prison, the house of correction for prostitutes, wayward apprentices and petty criminals.

Category

Mid-18th Century English George III Antique Prison

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

French, Late 19th Century, Sèvres Biscuit Bust

French, Late 19th Century, Sèvres Biscuit Bust

Located in Charleston, SC

In 1793, he and other officers were arrested under suspicion and spent time in prison. After his release from prison, Marceau took part in the defense of Saumur against the Vendée...

Category

19th Century French Antique Prison

Large Bronze of Charles Dickens, 19th Century
Large Bronze of Charles Dickens, 19th Century

Large Bronze of Charles Dickens, 19th Century

Located in London, GB

Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal f...

Category

19th Century European Antique Prison

Materials

Bronze

Yoshitoshi, Suikoden, Lin Chong, Lu Qian, Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Yoshitoshi, Suikoden, Lin Chong, Lu Qian, Original Japanese Woodblock Print

Yoshitoshi, Suikoden, Lin Chong, Lu Qian, Original Japanese Woodblock Print

By Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Located in London, GB

In some records, he is said to have been tattooed on the face and exiled to Cangzhou. While in prison, he is assigned to be a solo watchman at a fodder depot, however, this turns out...

Category

Late 19th Century Other Art Style Antique Prison

Materials

Handmade Paper, Mulberry Paper, Washi Paper, Pigment, Woodcut

19th Century Carved Coconut
19th Century Carved Coconut

19th Century Carved Coconut

Unavailable|$1,226

19th Century Carved Coconut

Located in Paris, FR

Carved coconuts were originally brought by navigators, explorers who would gather them along their trips in the islands or visiting the prisons. They were exposed in "cabinets de cur...

Category

Early 19th Century French Folk Art Antique Prison

Materials

Coconut

Napoleonian Carved Coconut (19th century)
Napoleonian Carved Coconut (19th century)

Napoleonian Carved Coconut (19th century)

Located in Paris, FR

Carved coconuts were originally brought by navigators, explorers who would gather them along their trips in the islands or visiting the prisons. They were exposed in "cabinets d...

Category

Early 19th Century French Folk Art Antique Prison

Materials

Coconut

Architectural Ruins Painting by Neapolitan Master Gennaro Greco, c. 1700
Architectural Ruins Painting by Neapolitan Master Gennaro Greco, c. 1700

Architectural Ruins Painting by Neapolitan Master Gennaro Greco, c. 1700

By Gennaro Greco

Located in Lafayette, CA

“Gennaro’s paintings invented a variety of ruined Architecture and other magnificent constructions and made superb underground places and imaginary prisons with horrible appearances,...

Category

18th Century and Earlier Antique Prison

Materials

Oil

Spartacus
Spartacus

Spartacus

Located in Paris, FR

The catalogue describes it as follows: « Spartacus, Thracian prince, having become a Roman slave, was condemned to undertake the vile profession of gladiator. Escaping from prison, h...

Category

1820s Romantic Antique Prison

Materials

Bronze

A Design for a Stage Set Depicting an Architectural Fantasy

A Design for a Stage Set Depicting an Architectural Fantasy

By Giuseppino Galliari

Located in New York, NY

Also, in his depiction of shadowy prisons and monumental palaces, Galliari owes an unmistakable artistic debt to Piranesi and his architectural prints.

Category

18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Prison

Materials

Pen

Tibor Jankay Margareta Painting, 1920-1930 Hommage to Van Gogh
Tibor Jankay Margareta Painting, 1920-1930 Hommage to Van Gogh

Tibor Jankay Margareta Painting, 1920-1930 Hommage to Van Gogh

By Tibor Jankay

Located in London, GB

These battalions were little more than prison camps, where prisoners were starved and frequently beaten.

Category

1920s American Mid-Century Modern Antique Prison

Tibor Jankay Three Sisters Reading Painting, 1920-1930
Tibor Jankay Three Sisters Reading Painting, 1920-1930

Tibor Jankay Three Sisters Reading Painting, 1920-1930

By Tibor Jankay

Located in London, GB

These battalions were little more than prison camps, where prisoners were starved and frequently beaten.

Category

1920s Hungarian Art Deco Antique Prison

Tibor Jankay Village Painting, 1920-1930
Tibor Jankay Village Painting, 1920-1930

Tibor Jankay Village Painting, 1920-1930

By Tibor Jankay

Located in London, GB

These battalions were little more than prison camps, where prisoners were starved and frequently beaten.

Category

1920s American Art Deco Antique Prison

Tibor Jankay Picnic Painting, 1920-1930

Tibor Jankay Picnic Painting, 1920-1930

By Tibor Jankay

Located in London, GB

These battalions were little more than prison camps, where prisoners were starved and frequently beaten.

Category

1920s American Art Deco Antique Prison

Tibor Jankay ( 1899-1994 ): Old Mountain Painting, 1920-1930
Tibor Jankay ( 1899-1994 ): Old Mountain Painting, 1920-1930

Tibor Jankay ( 1899-1994 ): Old Mountain Painting, 1920-1930

By Tibor Jankay

Located in London, GB

These battalions were little more than prison camps, where prisoners were starved and frequently beaten.

Category

1920s American Art Deco Antique Prison

Historical Portrait of Beatrice Cenci, Italian Painting, Mid-18th Century Oil
Historical Portrait of Beatrice Cenci, Italian Painting, Mid-18th Century Oil

Historical Portrait of Beatrice Cenci, Italian Painting, Mid-18th Century Oil

Located in Rome, Italy

Having acquired the evidence, the two brothers Bernardo and Giacomo were imprisoned in the prison of Tordinona, Beatrice and Lucrezia in that of Corte Savella.

Category

1850s Italian Antique Prison

Materials

Canvas

Antique Prison Door

Antique Prison Door

Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)

Antique prison door.

Category

Early 1800s Antique Prison

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Antique Prison For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal antique prison for your home. An antique prison — often made from wood, metal and iron — can elevate any home. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer antique prison, there are earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. An antique prison is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Victorian, Folk Art and Baroque styles are sought with frequency. George Gregory each produced at least one beautiful antique prison that is worth considering.

How Much is a Antique Prison?

The average selling price for an antique prison at 1stDibs is $2,150, while they’re typically $144 on the low end and $99,721 for the highest priced.