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Beheading the dragon : a history of female inner alchemy in China / by Elena Valussi.
Valussi, Elena.Date: 2002- Digital Images
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Example of Beheading, a Roman military punishment carried out by the use of a axe or sword
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The beheading of Silvestre Budes. Coloured lithograph, 1845.
Date: [1845]Reference: 43448i- Pictures
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The beheading of Charles I outside the Banqueting Hall of Whitehall in 1649. Engraving with etching.
Date: 1600-1699Reference: 43455i- Pictures
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The beheading of the Duke of Suffolk. Engraving by G. Terry.
Reference: 43452i- Pictures
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The beheading of Christopher Love on Tower Hill, London, in 1651. Engraving with etching and letterpress.
Date: [1651?]Reference: 43471i- Pictures
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Kowloon, Hong Kong: five pirates awaiting beheading, while Chinese soldiers and dignitaries line up behind. Photograph, 1891.
Date: [1891]Reference: 663758i- Pictures
The beheading of the accomplices of the murderers of two British officers in Japan, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
Wirgman, Charles, 1832-1891.Date: 1865Reference: 580192i- Pictures
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The beheading of King Charles I in Whitehall, 1649. Engraving with etching.
Reference: 43470i- Pictures
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Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria: a grandee riding on horseback with his attendants; the beheading of a criminal; the use of retractable roofs in houses. Engraving, 1777.
Date: [1777]Reference: 43567i- Pictures
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The beheading of Masout, Hermest, Murtij and Meus. Engraving with etching.
Reference: 43511i- Books
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An authentick account of the condemnation and execution of Prince Nicolas Wolinski, Great Hunter and Master of the Cabinet (or Prime Minister) to her Imperial Majesty the late Czarina of Russia. Who was accused by his country of being an enemy to her Majesty's government, and contriving the Subversion thereof, by traiterously Oppressing and defrauding the Subjects in his Exactions, and deceiving the Empress by false and pernicious Councels, for which he was executed on the 12th of July last. With a particular Relation of his taking Leave of his Children, the Death of his Lady, who expired with Grief at their Interview, the Manner of his Beheading and last Farewell to the Spectators. By M. Menzikowitz, a Native of Russia.
Menzikowitz, M.Date: 1741- Pictures
The beheading of Shimazu-Seiji for the murder of two British officers in Japan, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
Wirgman, Charles, 1832-1891.Date: 1865Reference: 580193i- Pictures
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The execution of slaves by means of beheading by the Bakuti, near Equator Station. Wood engraving.
Bannister, Edward, 1833-1901.Reference: 43570i- Pictures
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The beheading of James. Etching by W. Herbert after G.F. Barbieri (il Guercino).
Guercino, 1591-1666.Date: 1762Reference: 39103i- Pictures
Kowloon, Hong Kong: the bodies of five pirates after beheading, the severed heads on the ground, with eight European men standing by them. Photograph, 1891.
Date: [1891]Reference: 663456i- Pictures
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The beheading of Juan de Padilla and his associates in the market place of Villalar in 1521. Wood engraving by T.C. Capúz after A. Gisbert Pérez.
Gisbert, Antonio, 1834-1901.Date: [1867?]Reference: 43453i- Pictures
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The beheading of Guillaume de Pommiers and his confessor in Bordeaux in 1377, by order of the King of England's Lieutenant. Aquatint.
Reference: 43447i- Pictures
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The beheading of Lords Balmerino and Kilmarnock at Tower Hill, London, in 1746, attended by a large crowd; with portraits of four of the rebel lords. Etching with engraving.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 43513i- Pictures
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Various forms of mutilation and torture including scourging, beheading, burning, hanging, drowning, quartering, the cutting off of hands and ears, and the breaking on the rack. Woodcut.
Reference: 43393i- Books
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A compleat and authentick history of the rise, progress, and extinction of the late rebellion, and of the proceedings against the principal persons concerned therein. Containing A clear and impartial Narrative of the Intrigues of the Pretender's Adherents before the Breaking out of their Design in North-Britain; their Proceedings after their taking Arms; their Actions in that Part of the Island before they marched Southwards; their March to Derby, and true Reasons of their Retreat; the Dispute at Falkirk, and Motives of their transferring the War into the Highlands; with the principal Causes of their Defeat at Culloden. Intersporsed with the Characters of their Chic-Leaders, and a curious Detail of their Negotiations abroad. The whole composed with the greatest Accuracy possible in regard in Fact and Dates, and free from all Mixture of fictitious Circumstances, or ill-grounded Conjectures. Adorned and illustrated with exact plans of the battles of Falkirk and Culloden, and the Heads of the Young Adventurer, the Earls of Cromarty and Kilmarnock, Lords Balmerino and Lovat, and Mr. Radcliffe, with an exact Representation of the Beheading of Lord Lovat, all neatly engraved on Copper.
Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Pictures
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A white man hides behind a make-shift shelter made from banana-leaves watching the beheading of a naked black man with a hatchet. Wood engraving by H.S. Melville.
Reference: 43607i- Books
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A short historical account of the guillotine; or beheading machine: by which the Late King of France suffered, and which is now exhibiting at the Great Rooms, No. 28, Hay-market.
Twiss, Richard, 1747-1821.Date: 1793]- Books
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Massacre of the French King! View of la guillotine; or the modern beheading machine, at Paris. By which the unfortunate Louis XVI. (late King of France) suffered on the scaffold, January 21st, 1793.
Date: [1793]- Books
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Massacre of the French King! View of la guillotine; or the modern beheading machine, at Paris. By which the unfortunate Louis XVI. (late King of France) suffered on the scaffold, January 21st, 1793.
Date: 1793]