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  • Martyrdom of Christian saints by being shut up to be bitten by mice or rats, crowded together like locusts, or trampled by horses. Woodcut.
  • 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.
  • Christ bound and beaten by Jews. Etching by Heinrich Nüsser after J.F. Overbeck, 1850.
  • The mocking and flagellation of Christ; he is crowned with thorns and beaten with sticks. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Carracci.
  • Tortures. Watercolours by a Japanese artist.
  • A Chinese man with bound feet is tied to a stump by the neck with a chain and a tube of bamboo. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A black man being burned alive: other black people and Europeans look on. Etching by C. Warren after Corbould, 18--.
  • 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.
  • 'Dr. Dooreslaer' appearing with mythological figures and scenes of feasting and execution. Line engraving, c. 1650.
  • A girl in a red aureole with spiked bars; representing fear of the Iron Maiden of Nuremberg. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • Court of Yama, God of Death. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • A cattle thief in Siam punished by having a yoke fixed around his neck. Process print, 19--.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • Titus Oates is standing in the pillory while two men drive a cart with gallows past him. Mezzotint.
  • A Chinese man seated in a pillory (cangue). Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A Chinese man wearing a cangue (portable pillory) and a Chinese man lying on the ground, being whipped. Wood engraving, ca. 1860.
  • A Egyptian is tied to a stake receiving a beating with wooden bats. Lithograph by Edouard after E. Rigaud.
  • A Chinese man seated on a square block of wood is tied to it with a chain round his neck. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Tortures. Watercolours by a Japanese artist.
  • Two men burning a man alive; three men cutting a man's limbs; a man about to cut a man's head with an axe. Lithograph.
  • A Chinese man lying on the ground is being scourged by order of a magistrate and his clerk; a man carrying the cangue around his neck as a punishment walks past. Engraving by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, May 1805.
  • Christ beaten and mocked before Caiaphas. Etching by J. Callot, 1630.
  • A Chinese man carrying the cangue around his neck as a punishment is being fed by a woman; a guard holding a whip stands next to him. Engraving by G. Paterson after T. Allom after W. Varnham, 1843.
  • Tortures. Watercolours by a Japanese artist.
  • A Chinese man with his hands bound in a wooden grid, kneeling on the ground, is tortured by two men holding a long stick and a man with a rope. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Criminal soldiers are broken on the wheel on a scaffold in the middle of a marketplace. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the infant Christ; the latter sits in the lap of the Virgin Mary, who sits next to Joseph. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after P. Tibaldi.
  • Saint Sebastian. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni.
  • A Chinese prisoner who has tried to escape is lying on the ground while a man wearing a red jacket is cutting his ankles with a sword. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.