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The execution by sword of a Chinese man. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582365iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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China: a man standing in a locked cage as a method of slow torture or execution. Photograph, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 663448i- Pictures
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Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
Reference: 1999i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0000790: Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Etching
Date: 12 May 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/7/87Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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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--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 663449i- Pictures
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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- Books
Narrative of the barbarous murder of Madame Mazel, a French lady of distinction : with an account of the trial, torture, and death, of her valet de chambre, Le Brun ; who was declared, on presumptive evidence, to be guilty of the murder, or accessary thereto ; also the confession and execution of the real murderer, who was miraculously discovered some time afterwards.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]- Pictures
China (?): the mutilated bodies of three men who have been tortured and executed. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663765i- Pictures
China: the mutilated bodies of two men who had been tortured, dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663857i- Pictures
China: the mutilated body of a man who had been dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663854i- Pictures
King Charles II. Etching after J. Chantry.
Chantry, John, -1662?Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 2042953i- Books
The illustrated history of torture : from the Roman Empire to the war on terror / Jack Vernon.
Vernon, Jack.Date: [2011], ©2011- Pictures
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The execution of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot in 1606 in London. Etching with engraving by C.J. Visscher.
Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652.Reference: 43489i- Pictures
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A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
Date: [1857]Reference: 579912i- Pictures
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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.
Robert-Fleury, Tony, 1837-1911.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 43737i- Pictures
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A Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. Wood engraving, 1857.
Date: [1857]Reference: 579728i- Pictures
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A man being tortured and executed in public. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 27655i- Pictures
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A woman about to be tortured in the Iron Maiden of Nuremberg. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: June 70 [June 1970]Reference: 2869404iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
Death by a thousand cuts / Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue.
Brook, Timothy, 1951-Date: 2008- Pictures
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A Chinese man with bound feet being led to execution by two Chinese men holding swords. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579708i- Pictures
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A girl in a red aureole with spiked bars; representing fear of the Iron Maiden of Nuremberg. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: [August 1967?]Reference: 2854472iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
Why torture doesn't work : the neuroscience of interrogation / Shane O'Mara.
O'Mara, S. M. (Shane M.)Date: 2015- Pictures
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A girl in a red aureole surrounded by red crosses; representing fear of the Iron Maiden of Nuremberg. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: Aug. 67 [August 1967]Reference: 2854471iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
A woman being immured by a man, or released from immurement; blocks of stone are on the ground. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 1/9/55 [1 September 1955]Reference: 2969682iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A firing squad executing criminal soldiers. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Date: [1730]Reference: 44133i