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  • An auto-da-fé in the Great Square in Madrid with the inquisitors pronouncing the sentences to the accused and the crowds on the tribunes. Engraving.
  • The procession of the Spanish Inquisition in Goa entering the church with standards and banners. Engraving.
  • The inside of a jail of the Spanish Inquisition, with a priest supervising his scribe while men and women are suspended from pulleys, tortured on the rack or burnt with torches. Etching.
  • A torture chamber of the Spanish Inquisition with suspected heretics having their feet burned or being suspended with a rope from a pulley while scribes note down confessions. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • The inside of a jail of the Inquisition, with a priest supervising his scribe while men and women are suspended from pulleys, tortured on the rack or burnt with torches. Etching.
  • An interrogation room of the Spanish Inquisition with two priests and an accused heretic. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • Accused heretics standing before a tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in Sevilla. Etching by E. Moyse.
  • Left, the banner of the Spanish Inquisition; right banner of the Inquisition in Goa. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • Left, a young woman condemned to be burnt alive by the Spanish Inquisition; right, a young man about to be burnt alive at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • An auto-da-fé in Spain: the accused are led in procession by the Inquisitors to their trial. Engraving, 1749.
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