A Chinese man is lying on an horizontal pillory while two Chinese men are tying a rope around the wooden structure at its base and a third man is hammering on a pole in order to crush the victim's ankles. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

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A Chinese man is lying on an horizontal pillory while two Chinese men are tying a rope around the wooden structure at its base and a third man is hammering on a pole in order to crush the victim's ankles. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

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A Chinese man is lying on an horizontal pillory while two Chinese men are tying a rope around the wooden structure at its base and a third man is hammering on a pole in order to crush the victim's ankles. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.