Wellcome Collection under CC BY SA-4.0 The 75,688 tattoos cataloged in the Digital Panopticon database of Victorian era convicts depict a dizzying array of subjects. A “habitual criminal ...

Ink liberated Victorian-era women outside ... Winston Churchill’s mother Lady Randolph Churchill is said to have had a snake tattoo on her wrist (easily covered by a wineglass or sleeve ...

FASCINATING snaps show the work of one of Britian's first tattoo artists Sutherland Macdonald VICTORIAN pictures always show stern-looking faces with people covering their bodies from head to toe ...

And all of the pictures from the Victorian era show the inkings carried out by one of the first ever tattoo artists - Sutherland Macdonald. Sutherland began working professionally as a tattoo ...