Women as helpless, chained (and usually naked) victims

• Andromeda and other women in chains
• Slave Eroticism
• Hiram Powers, The Greek Slave
• Benjamin Clemens, Immolate
• S. Nichoson Babb's The Victim
• Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, The Rock of Doom
• Sir Edward Poynter, Zenobia Captive
• J. W. Waterhouse's Mariamne Leaving the Judgement Seat of Herod

Rescued Women

• Nudes and Knights: Millais's The Knight Errant
• Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, The Doom Fulfilled

Failed Rescues

• George Frederick Watts, Orpheus and Euridice
• George Frederick Watts, Orpheus and Euridice (vertical format)

Religious and Other Martyrs (usually prone)

• J. W. Waterhouse's St. Eulalia
• [Compare Ophelia, a martyr to love]
• Paul delaRoche, The Christian Martyr

Examples from Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth Century Eastern Europe

• Women in chains (coming soon)
• The Crucified Woman (coming soon)

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