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  • A whip seller holding his whips. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A whip sellers's wife holding some whips. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths with drums, whips, etc: a mounted policeman moves through the throng. Wood engraving.
  • India: a man smoking a hookah whips a bullock who is drawing him on a platform around a milling wheel. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Sêrro do Frio, Minas Gerais, Brazil: slaves washing soil for diamonds, supervised by men with whips. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, 1821, after J. Mawe.
  • A black woman in Surinam tied to a tree by her wrists as men walk towards her with whips in their hands. Engraving by W. Blake after J.G. Stedman.
  • An episode in Baldo by Teofilo Folengo (Merlin Cocai): a centaur releases Falchetto and his companions from a cave, while Cingar ties Muselina to a tree and whips her with branches. Etching.
  • A cart laden with coins in sacks is dragged by a group of devils who are lashed by men armed with whips; representing William Wood's scheme to improve the Irish coinage. Engraving, 1724.
  • A white man (Johnny Newcome) sits on a beach in the West Indies: he is having a sunshade held over him while he whips a black man who is on his knees. Coloured etching by W. Elmes, 1812.
  • Temple sculpture: a half-length figure holding a whip. Pencil drawing.