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A naked woman, trapped on a ledge on a cliff and chained to a bomb, tries to escape from a fiery explosion. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 25/8/55 [25 August 1955]Reference: 2970724iPart 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- Pictures
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Saint Sebastian. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642.Reference: 11789iPart of: La Pinacoteca della Pontificia Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna- Pictures
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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.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1843]Reference: 32525i- Pictures
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Joze Maria de Távora tied to a rack and beaten with cudgels. Etching, ca. 1760.
Date: [1760?]Reference: 43413i- Pictures
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'Dr. Dooreslaer' appearing with mythological figures and scenes of feasting and execution. Line engraving, c. 1650.
Reference: 17520i- Pictures
Jacob Johan Anckarström. Woodcut after J. Condé.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 559359i- Pictures
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A black slave in Surinam is stretched on a rack as another black man breaks his bones with a wooden stick. Engraving, 1793, after J.G. Stedman.
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797.Date: Decr 2d 1793Reference: 37910i- Books
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A particular and authentic narrative of the life, examination, tortures and execution of Robert Francis Damien, who attempted to kill Lewis XV. King of France, by stabbing him in the right side, as he was stepping into his coach, January the 5th, 1757. Interspersed with Some occasional Reflections on the dreadful Effects of Enthusiasm and Superstition. As published by Authority in Paris. Translated from the French by Thomas Jones, Esq;
Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Pictures
Canton, China: a woman being beheaded. Photograph, 1927.
Date: [1927]Reference: 663457i- Books
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The execution of iustice in England for maintenaunce of publique and Christian peace, against certeine stirrers of sedition, and adherents to the traytors and enemies of the realme, without any persecution of them for questions of religion, as is falsely reported and published by the fautors and fosterers of their treasons.
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598Date: [1583 [i.e. 1584]]- Books
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The execution of iustice in England for maintenaunce of publique and Christian peace, against certeine stirrers of sedition, and adherents to the traytors and enemies of the realme, without any persecution of them for questions of religion, as is falsely reported and published by the fautors and fosterers of their treasons : xvii. Decemb. 1583.
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598Date: 1583- Digital Images
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Scene from the Shahnameh
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L'execution de iustice faicte en Angleterre : pour maintenir la paix publique & chrestienne, contre les autheurs de sedition, adherens aux tristres & ennemis du royaume: sans aucune persecution contre eux esmeuë, pour matiere de religio[n], commeil a esté faucement aduancé & publie,́ par les fauteurs & nourriciers de leurs traisons. Descrite premierement en Anglois, puis traduite en langue Fran̨coise, en faueur de autres nations & personnes, qui ont l'vsage d'icelle.
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598Date: [1584]- Books
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Iustitia Britannica : Per quam liquet perspicue aliquot in eo regno perditos ciues, seditionis & armorum ciuilium authores, regníq[ue] hostium propugnatores acerrimos, vt communi Ecclesiæ reiq[ue] publicæ paci, cautius prospiceretur, morte mulcatatos esse: propter religionem vero, aut cæremonias Romanas, neminem in capitis discrimen vocatum: licet ab aduersarijs secus multò, & admodum malitiosè publicetur. Perscriptum primo in nostrate lingua, deinde versum in Latinam.
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598Date: Anno M.D.LXXXIIII. [1584] Anno regni Reginæ Elizabethæ XXVI. Mense Martio- Books
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Justitia Britannica : per quam liquet perspicue, aliquot in eo regno perditos cives, seditionis et armorum ciuilium authores, regniq[úe]; hostium propugnatores acerrimos, vt communi Ecclesiæ reiq[úe]; publicæ paci, cautius prospiceretur, morte mulctatos esse: propter religionem verò, aut cærimonias Romanas, neminem in capitis discrimen vocatum: licèt ab aduersariis secus multò, & admodum malitiosè publicetur. Perscriptum primò in nostrate lingua, deinde versum in Latinam.
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598Date: Anno M.D.LXXXIIII. [1584] Anno regni Reginæ Elizabethæ XXVI. Mense Martio- Books
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Atto della Giustitia d'Inghilterra, effeguito, per la coseruatione della commune [e] christiana pace : contra alcuni feminatori di discordie, [e] seguaci de ribelli, [e] denemici del reame, [e] non per niuna perfecutione ... Traslatato d'inglese in vulgare ... Il 25.d Maggio 1584. [e] 26.del felicissimo regno d'Eliza ... tta, per gratia at Dio.
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598Date: 1584- Pictures
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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.
Date: [1857]Reference: 579930i- Books
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D'executie van iustitie : tot onderhoudinge vande publicke en christelicke vrede in Engelandt ghedaen, teghen seker oproermakers ... Ouergheset vuyt het Enghelsche.
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598Date: 1584- Pictures
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A man is tortured on an intricate contraption which combines a rack, a pulley and weights and lifted up by it before the inquisitor and his scribe. Wood engraving (?) after H. Soltau.
Soltau, Hermann Wilhelm, 1812-1861.Reference: 43416i- Pictures
The two Maries attend the cross; a pelican feeds its young on its own blood; Justice and Charity (?) stand under pillars hung with the instruments of the Passion. Line engraving by K. van Mallery, 1609.
Richeome, Louis, 1544-1625.Date: 1609Reference: 23200i- Pictures
Robert François Damiens. Etching.
Date: [1757?]Reference: 2010748i- Pictures
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A large crowd surrounds a platform on which victims are tortured by means of racks and crosses. Engraving with etching by A. Walker.
Reference: 43524i- Books
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Genuine and authentic account of the life, trial and execution, of Elizabeth Brownrigg, who was executed on Monday the 14th of September, 1767, for the barbarous murder of Mary Clifford, her apprentice girl. With Her Behaviour while under Sentence of Death, and at the Place of Execution. Together with The Sufferings of Mary Mitchel, and Mary Jones. To which is prefixed, A Frontispiece of Mrs. Brownrigg in the Cell in Newgate; and the Manner of her Torturing the Girls; with the Dark Hole where the Girls were confined on Sundays, truly represented.
Date: M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]- Pictures
A man and a woman in evening dress seated at table; below, a skeleton in torture. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1957.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: 31.5.57 [31 May 1957]Reference: 2863689iPart of: Adamson Collection