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The burning of criminal soldiers on the stake. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Date: [1730]Reference: 44139i
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A letter to the justices of the peace for the county of Surrey, on the cases in the House of Correction at Guildford, presented by Mr. Briscoe to them at their general quarter sessions, on the 13th of January, 1824 / by Henry Drummond.
Drummond, Henry, 1786-1860.Date: 1824
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A Chinese courtroom (?): a woman is shown being beaten, as she kneels before a formally-dressed official, who is writing at a desk. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
Date: 1780-1880Reference: 573872i
Part of: Chinese justice and methods of punishment
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Criminal soldiers are broken on the wheel on a scaffold in the middle of a marketplace. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Date: [1730]Reference: 44140i
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Penological and preventive principles : with special reference to Europe and America and to the diminution of crime, pauperism, and intemperance to prisons and their substitutes habitual offenders, sentences, neglected youth, education, police, statistics, etc / by William Tallack.
Tallack, William, 1831-1908.Date: 1889
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A Chinese man lying on the ground, with a man seated on his back and another holding his feet, is being beaten. Engraving by W. Wetherhead, 1858, after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.Date: [1858]Reference: 579730i
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Punishment : its origin, purpose and psychology / by Hans von Hentig.
Hentig, Hans von, 1887-1974.Date: 1937
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A Chinese man being taken prisoner: a man is shown being led away by two other men, who pull on a chain attached to his neck, while a woman and child look on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
Date: 1780-1880Reference: 573874i
Part of: Chinese justice and methods of punishment
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Page 6: court of Yama, judgement and punishment. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 26976i
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Ethnologische Studien zur ersten Entwicklung der Strafe : nebst einer psychologischen Abhandlung über Grausamkeit und Rachsucht / von S.R. Steinmetz.
Steinmetz, Sebald Rudolf, 1862-1940.Date: 1894
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Report of the Departmental Committee on Corporal Punishment.
Great Britain. Home Office. Committee on Corporal Punishment.Date: 1938
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Inferno : an anatomy of American punishment / Robert A. Ferguson.
Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-2017Date: 2014
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Two Chinese prisoners, shackled to large weights: one prisoner drinks tea (?), while the other sits beside a small furnace. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 573821i
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A firing squad executing criminal soldiers. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Date: [1730]Reference: 44133i
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A Chinese man kneeling on the ground and held by a man in uniform is being hit by a man wearing a similar uniform. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579693i
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A comparative view of the punishments annexed to crime in the United States of America and in England / by J. Sydney Taylor.
Taylor, J. Sydney (John Sydney), 1795-1841.Date: 1831
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The Newgate calendar; comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England since the commencement of the eighteenth century; with occasional anecdotes and observations, speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers / By Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin.
Knapp, Andrew.Date: 1824-
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Five men beating three women with sticks in Ethiopia. Wood engraving by É. Bayard after G. Lejean, 1867.
Date: 1870-1879Reference: 580442i
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A Chinese prisoner kneeling on the ground is having his fingers tortured by three men. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.
Date: 15 May 1812Reference: 579903i
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A Chinese man carrying the cangue around his neck as a punishment. Halftone, 19--.
Date: 1900-1999Reference: 579735i
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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--?.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 573832i
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Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners sitting on long benches untangling bundles of twine (picking oakum); a guard raises his hand. Wood engraving. after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.
Fitzgerald, Michael, active 1871-1891.Date: [1874]Reference: 37710i
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A Chinese woman being subjected to torture while tied to a cross: the woman's torturer is shown using a knife to cut open her abdomen, arms and face, while a formally-dressed man looks on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 573828i
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Two Chinese men wearing red jackets are holding a Chinese prisoner by the ears and under the arms. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579692i
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Prisoners in Rangoon working a treadmill. Process print after Watts & Skeen.
Reference: 37768i

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The burning of criminal soldiers on the stake. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

A letter to the justices of the peace for the county of Surrey, on the cases in the House of Correction at Guildford, presented by Mr. Briscoe to them at their general quarter sessions, on the 13th of January, 1824 / by Henry Drummond.

A Chinese courtroom (?): a woman is shown being beaten, as she kneels before a formally-dressed official, who is writing at a desk. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.

Criminal soldiers are broken on the wheel on a scaffold in the middle of a marketplace. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

Penological and preventive principles : with special reference to Europe and America and to the diminution of crime, pauperism, and intemperance to prisons and their substitutes habitual offenders, sentences, neglected youth, education, police, statistics, etc / by William Tallack.

A Chinese man lying on the ground, with a man seated on his back and another holding his feet, is being beaten. Engraving by W. Wetherhead, 1858, after T. Allom.

Punishment : its origin, purpose and psychology / by Hans von Hentig.

A Chinese man being taken prisoner: a man is shown being led away by two other men, who pull on a chain attached to his neck, while a woman and child look on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.

Page 6: court of Yama, judgement and punishment. Watercolour drawing.

Ethnologische Studien zur ersten Entwicklung der Strafe : nebst einer psychologischen Abhandlung über Grausamkeit und Rachsucht / von S.R. Steinmetz.

Report of the Departmental Committee on Corporal Punishment.

Inferno : an anatomy of American punishment / Robert A. Ferguson.

Two Chinese prisoners, shackled to large weights: one prisoner drinks tea (?), while the other sits beside a small furnace. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.

A firing squad executing criminal soldiers. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

A Chinese man kneeling on the ground and held by a man in uniform is being hit by a man wearing a similar uniform. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

A comparative view of the punishments annexed to crime in the United States of America and in England / by J. Sydney Taylor.

Five men beating three women with sticks in Ethiopia. Wood engraving by É. Bayard after G. Lejean, 1867.

A Chinese prisoner kneeling on the ground is having his fingers tortured by three men. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.

A Chinese man carrying the cangue around his neck as a punishment. Halftone, 19--.

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--?.

Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners sitting on long benches untangling bundles of twine (picking oakum); a guard raises his hand. Wood engraving. after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.

A Chinese woman being subjected to torture while tied to a cross: the woman's torturer is shown using a knife to cut open her abdomen, arms and face, while a formally-dressed man looks on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.

Two Chinese men wearing red jackets are holding a Chinese prisoner by the ears and under the arms. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

Prisoners in Rangoon working a treadmill. Process print after Watts & Skeen.