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  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
  • A torture victim; and divination techniques. Engraving.
  • Torture in a Sicilian prison in Monreale: the prisoner has a tourniquet applied to his forehead. Wood engraving.
  • Mediaeval torturers torture a gout-sufferer; representing the view attributed to Fabricius von Hilden that gout could be cured by torture. Colour process print after D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • Mediaeval torturers torture a gout-sufferer; representing the view attributed to Fabricius von Hilden that gout could be cured by torture. Colour process print after D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • Mediaeval torturers torture a gout-sufferer; representing the view attributed to Fabricius von Hilden that gout could be cured by torture. Colour process print after D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • Varieties of torture in Asia. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1682.
  • The torture of rebels in Persia. Line engraving with etching, 17--.
  • A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.
  • Hooks, ropes and a lancet used by Hindu ascetics for self-torture. Engraving, 1798.
  • Two Chinese men torture two prisoners. Pen and ink drawing by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Two Chinese men torture two prisoners. Pen and ink drawing by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A victim of torture is flayed or disembowelled by two men in a cave. Wood engraving.
  • Three different methods of punishment and torture, including scourging the bare buttocks of a culprit. Etching.
  • Methods of torture in South America: people in field stocks before large crucifixes. Wood engraving by Riou.
  • Many figures including a woman identified as Venus gambling with Cupid, evidence of torture and tumult. Engraving.
  • The three different stages of the torture of John Coustos. Etching with engraving by S.J. Neele, 1810.
  • China: a man standing in a locked cage as a method of slow torture or execution. Photograph, 18--.
  • Various forms of torture, including a man being burnt alive and a man being held upside down. Woodcut.
  • A Chinese man being subjected to torture while shackled to a bed or rack, surrounded by three torturers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • A gaoler receives money for releasing a prisoner from a torture chamber. Engraving by A.C. after M. de Vos.
  • A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.
  • Methods of torture through the ages: including a rack, the man in the iron mask? and Roman and Tudor punishments. Halftone.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments of torture and appliances for restraint of the insane. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments of torture and appliances for restraint of the insane. Photograph.
  • Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, one performing self-torture. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
  • A victim of torture is about to have its hand plunged into an open flame while a priest is looking on. Woodcut.
  • The torture of Roman Catholics by monsters in hell, with Charon ferrying more departed souls over the river Styx. Engraving with etching.