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A chicken-thief in Yunnan Province, China, punished by being attached to a tree by his arms, watched by a crowd of people. Halftone after F.W. Carey.
Carey, Frederic W., 1874-1931.Date: 1900-1999Reference: 579909i
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing patient, who is being pick-pocketed by a woman. Line engraving after L. van Leyden, 1523.
Lucas, van Leyden, 1494-1533.Date: 1523Reference: 16418i
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Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a thief with his thumbs chopped off. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1871Reference: 19736i
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag. Watercolour after J.J. van Vliet.
Vliet, Jan Joris van der, approximately 1610-Reference: 16435i- Books
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Retsah, a cry against a crying sinne, or, A just complaint to the magistrates, against them who have broken the statute laws of God, by killing of men meerly for theft : manifested in a petition long since presented to the Common Councel of the city of London, on the behalfe of transgressours : together with certaine proposals, presented by Col. Pride to the Right Honourable the Generall Counsell for the Army, and the Committee appointed by the Parliament of England, to consider of the inconveniences, mischiefes, chargeablenesse, and irregularities in their law.
Chidley, SamuelDate: 1652