China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, having the ropes of the garrotte attached to her head. Photograph, 19--.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1999]
Reference:
663453i
Part of:
China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband
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About this work

Description

"Strangulation. The "slow strangulation" of a Chinese woman. She took fifteen minutes to die from the time strangulation commenced"--label attached to a copy of the final photograph in the series of six

Publication/Creation

[China.] : [publisher not identified], [between 1900 and 1999]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 26.3 x 17.8 cm

Lettering

Strangulation of a Chinese woman Lettering on typed slip stuck to verso of print catalogued Bears number: 4

Reference

Wellcome Collection 663453i

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Where to find it

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    663453i.2
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    663453i.1

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