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A white man hides behind a make-shift shelter made from banana-leaves watching the beheading of a naked black man with a hatchet. Wood engraving by H.S. Melville.
Reference: 43607i
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Execution of the King of France now exhibiting at No. 28, Hay-market. La Guillotine; or The beheading machine, from Paris, by which the late King of France suffered. And an exact representation of the execution
Date: [1793]
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No. 45, Oxford-Street, near Newman-Street. La guillotine, or beheading machine, from Paris. Some imperfect models of the original machine having been offered for public inspection, the proprietor of this guillotine, ... had it constructed under the immedi
Date: [1793]
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The Earl of Strafford, going to his execution, stops to be blessed by Archbishop Laud; below, an executioner holds the head after the beheading in 1641. Line engraving with etching by J. Rogers after P. Delaroche.
Paul DelarocheReference: 43468i
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The maner of the beheading of Duke Hambleton, the Earl of Holland and the Lord Capell : in the Pallace-Yard at Westminster on Friday the 9th of March, 1648, with the substance of their severall speeches upon the scaffold immediately before they were beheaded.
James SibbaldDate: 1648
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A Ba-yanzi execution whereby the head of the victim is held in a contraption which on beheading will catapult the head in the air, leaving the rump tied to the ground. Coloured wood engraving after E.J. Glave and H. Ward.
Edward James GlaveReference: 43555i
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Heads will roll : decapitation in the medieval and early modern imagination / edited by Larissa Tracy and Jeff Massey.
Date: [2012], ©2012
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The severed head : capital visions / Julia Kristeva ; translated by Jody Gladding.
Kristeva, Julia, 1941- Visions capitales. EnglishDate: 2012
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Severed : a history of heads lost and heads found / Frances Larson.
Frances LarsonDate: 2014
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Skull of a beheaded man. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29240i
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Canton, China: a woman being beheaded. Photograph, 1927.
Date: [1927]Reference: 663457i
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China: a man being beheaded, while the body of a man already beheaded lies in the foreground; a crowd of Chinese people and some Europeans stand around. Photograph.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663487i
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A gentleman is about to be beheaded. Wood engraving by M. U. Sears.
Reference: 43454i
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China: the mutilated body of a man who had been dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663854i
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A blindfolded young man is kneeling down about to be beheaded with a sword. Wood engraving.
Reference: 43426i
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Remarks on the speech of James late Earl of Derwentwater, Beheaded on Tower-Hill for High-Treason, February 24. 1715/16
Daniel DefoeDate: [1716]
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China: the mutilated bodies of two men who had been tortured, dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663857i
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Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
Abu al-Qasim Firdawsi of Tus
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A man about to be beheaded on a scaffold surrounded by a crowd of spectators. Line engraving with etching.
Reference: 43510i
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Madame Tiquet about to be beheaded for murder, 1699. Line engraving with etching by H.R. Cook, 1819, after G. Cruikshank.
George CruikshankDate: [1819]Reference: 43488i
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Elegy on the death of Patrick Hamilton younger of Green, who was beheaded at the Grass-merkat of Edinburgh, upon the 5th of September 1716
Date: [1716]
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A goat about to be beheaded as a Hindu ritual in honour of the goddess Kālī. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 726259i
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A Chinese man kneeling on the ground is about to be beheaded with a sword. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579709i
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The true and remarkable trial, condemnation, and execution of Louis the XVIth, late King of France. Who was on Monday last beheaded at Paris upon a scaffold
Date: [1793]
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Prophecies of the Reverend Christopher Love: and his last words on the scaffold. Who was beheaded at Tower-Hill, London, the 22d day of August, 1651
Love, ChristopherDate: [1794]

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A white man hides behind a make-shift shelter made from banana-leaves watching the beheading of a naked black man with a hatchet. Wood engraving by H.S. Melville.

Execution of the King of France now exhibiting at No. 28, Hay-market. La Guillotine; or The beheading machine, from Paris, by which the late King of France suffered. And an exact representation of the execution

No. 45, Oxford-Street, near Newman-Street. La guillotine, or beheading machine, from Paris. Some imperfect models of the original machine having been offered for public inspection, the proprietor of this guillotine, ... had it constructed under the immedi

The Earl of Strafford, going to his execution, stops to be blessed by Archbishop Laud; below, an executioner holds the head after the beheading in 1641. Line engraving with etching by J. Rogers after P. Delaroche.

The maner of the beheading of Duke Hambleton, the Earl of Holland and the Lord Capell : in the Pallace-Yard at Westminster on Friday the 9th of March, 1648, with the substance of their severall speeches upon the scaffold immediately before they were beheaded.

A Ba-yanzi execution whereby the head of the victim is held in a contraption which on beheading will catapult the head in the air, leaving the rump tied to the ground. Coloured wood engraving after E.J. Glave and H. Ward.

Heads will roll : decapitation in the medieval and early modern imagination / edited by Larissa Tracy and Jeff Massey.

The severed head : capital visions / Julia Kristeva ; translated by Jody Gladding.

Severed : a history of heads lost and heads found / Frances Larson.

Skull of a beheaded man. Drawing, c. 1789.

Canton, China: a woman being beheaded. Photograph, 1927.

China: a man being beheaded, while the body of a man already beheaded lies in the foreground; a crowd of Chinese people and some Europeans stand around. Photograph.

A gentleman is about to be beheaded. Wood engraving by M. U. Sears.

China: the mutilated body of a man who had been dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, 19--.

A blindfolded young man is kneeling down about to be beheaded with a sword. Wood engraving.

Remarks on the speech of James late Earl of Derwentwater, Beheaded on Tower-Hill for High-Treason, February 24. 1715/16

China: the mutilated bodies of two men who had been tortured, dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, ca. 1900.

Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings

A man about to be beheaded on a scaffold surrounded by a crowd of spectators. Line engraving with etching.

Madame Tiquet about to be beheaded for murder, 1699. Line engraving with etching by H.R. Cook, 1819, after G. Cruikshank.

Elegy on the death of Patrick Hamilton younger of Green, who was beheaded at the Grass-merkat of Edinburgh, upon the 5th of September 1716

A goat about to be beheaded as a Hindu ritual in honour of the goddess Kālī. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

A Chinese man kneeling on the ground is about to be beheaded with a sword. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

The true and remarkable trial, condemnation, and execution of Louis the XVIth, late King of France. Who was on Monday last beheaded at Paris upon a scaffold

Prophecies of the Reverend Christopher Love: and his last words on the scaffold. Who was beheaded at Tower-Hill, London, the 22d day of August, 1651