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  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan
  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
  • Canton, China: six men suspended by the neck in locked cages in public as a method of slow torture and execution for piracy. Photograph, 18--.
  • Three Chinese men being subjected to torture and execution: left, the body of a recently decapitated man, centre, a man tied to a cross, right, an executioner prepars to decapitate a kneeling man. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • A man being tortured and executed in public. Gouache drawing.
  • Above, Algerians executing a Christian slave for attempting to escape by suspending him on hooks through hands and feet in a wooden frame; below, Algerians torturing a burglar by cutting off his hand, hanging it around his neck and tying him on a bull. Engraving by C. Grignion after W. Grainger.
  • A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • An auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition: the burning of heretics in a market place. Wood engraving by H.D. Linton after Bocourt after T. Robert-Fleury.
  • The execution of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot in 1606 in London. Etching with engraving by C.J. Visscher.
  • China: a man standing in a locked cage as a method of slow torture or execution. Photograph, 18--.
  • Saint Sebastian. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni.
  • Torture during the plague epidemic at Milan, 1630.
  • 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 Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. 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.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Joze Maria de Távora tied to a rack and beaten with cudgels. Etching, ca. 1760.
  • Joze Maria de Távora tied to a rack and beaten with cudgels. Etching, ca. 1760.
  • Joze Maria de Távora tied to a rack and beaten with cudgels. Etching, ca. 1760.
  • A large crowd surrounds a platform on which victims are tortured by means of racks and crosses. Engraving with etching by A. Walker.
  • The family of Jean Calas sit listening to Alexandre Lavaysse reading a letter from Calas. Engraving by J.B. Delafosse after L.C. De Carmontelle.
  • Titus Oates is standing in the pillory while two men drive a cart with gallows past him. Mezzotint.
  • The three different stages of the torture of John Coustos. Etching with engraving by S.J. Neele, 1810.
  • A Hindu ascetic hanging from hooks through his back (called "cetil"). Line engraving, 1791.