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  • Three different methods of punishment and torture, including scourging the bare buttocks of a culprit. Etching.
  • The punishment and torture of the "Peacock" dervishes by order of Emin Pasha's rebel officers: the dervishes are lined up and seated to have their ears sliced off. Coloured wood engraving by P. Naumann after W.H. Overend after A.J. Mounteney-Jephson.
  • Methods of torture through the ages: including a rack, the man in the iron mask? and Roman and Tudor punishments. Halftone.
  • Woman wearing a Scold's Bridle.
  • A Chinese man is hanging up from a rope attached to a wooden structure and resting on a bamboo stick held by two Chinese men. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • 'Dr. Dooreslaer' appearing with mythological figures and scenes of feasting and execution. Line engraving, c. 1650.
  • Four faces of the damned in Dante's Hell. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • The British Museum: working-class people attending a guided tour and looking at exhibits of English history in glass cases and on the walls. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
  • A prisoner in Sing Sing Prison, New York, having water poured over him by a guard as a punishment, while restrained at the ankles and wrists: he dies. Wood engraving, 1869.
  • A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.
  • Christ bound and beaten by Jews. Etching by Heinrich Nüsser after J.F. Overbeck, 1850.
  • Jesus is exhibited to the people wearing a crown of thorns. Line engraving by Agostino Carracci, 1587, after A. Allegri, il Correggio.
  • The Virgin Mary with the Christ child, saints and martyrs (known as the 'Madonna del Rosario') Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino, 1619-21.
  • Christ crowned with thorns. Engraving after A. Durer, 1512.
  • Varieties of torture in Asia. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1682.
  • A Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man's head after garrotting exposed in a wooden cage hanging from a pole; his four children standing in front of it. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • Jacques de Molay, the last grand master of the Knights Templars, burnt alive as a lapsed heretic in Paris. Wood engraving by J. David.
  • Titus Oates is standing in the pillory while two men drive a cart with gallows past him. Mezzotint.
  • A Chinese prisoner kneeling on the ground is having his fingers tortured by three men. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.
  • Heads of two girls of contrasting appearance. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • Heads of two girls of contrasting appearance. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • Soldiers sacking a mansion and torturing its inhabitants. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.