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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- E-books
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Execution of the King of France now exhibiting at No. 28, Hay-market. La Guillotine; or The beheading machine, from Paris, by which the late King of France suffered. And an exact representation of the execution
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No. 45, Oxford-Street, near Newman-Street. La guillotine, or beheading machine, from Paris. Some imperfect models of the original machine having been offered for public inspection, the proprietor of this guillotine, ... had it constructed under the immedi
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The Earl of Strafford, going to his execution, stops to be blessed by Archbishop Laud; below, an executioner holds the head after the beheading in 1641. Line engraving with etching by J. Rogers after P. Delaroche.
Delaroche, Paul, 1797-1856.Reference: 43468i- Books
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The maner of the beheading of Duke Hambleton, the Earl of Holland and the Lord Capell : in the Pallace-Yard at Westminster on Friday the 9th of March, 1648, with the substance of their severall speeches upon the scaffold immediately before they were beheaded.
Sibbald, James, 1590?-1650?Date: 1648- Books
Heads will roll : decapitation in the medieval and early modern imagination / edited by Larissa Tracy and Jeff Massey.
Date: [2012], ©2012- Pictures
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A Ba-yanzi execution whereby the head of the victim is held in a contraption which on beheading will catapult the head in the air, leaving the rump tied to the ground. Coloured wood engraving after E.J. Glave and H. Ward.
Glave, E. J. (Edward James)Reference: 43555i- Books
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La mort par la décapitation / par Paul Loye ; préface de P. Brouardel.
Date: 1888- Pictures
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The decapitation of a saint; the spirit being received by two angels (?). Woodcut.
Reference: 11007i- Pictures
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A Chinese man kneeling on the ground is about to be beheaded with a sword. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579709i- Pictures
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The decapitated head of a man: two views. Photographs, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 663762i- Pictures
China: the mutilated bodies of two men who had been tortured, dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663857i- Pictures
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Saint Cecilia: her martyrdom. Engraving by C.M.F. Dien, 1827, after Giulio Romano.
Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546.Date: 1827Reference: 8589i- Pictures
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Martyrdom of two men by disembowelling and by decapitation. Etching after Ferrari [Cesare Ferreri?].
Reference: 11016i- Pictures
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Saint Barbara. Engraving by C. de Passe the elder.
Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637.Reference: 3514i- Pictures
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Saint Christopher: his martyrdom. Engraving by A. Zucchi after G.B. Tiepolo after J. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
Tintoretto, 1518-1594.Reference: 8732i- Pictures
The execution of Georg Scherer. Etching.
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China: a man being beheaded, while the body of a man already beheaded lies in the foreground; a crowd of Chinese people and some Europeans stand around. Photograph.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663487i- Pictures
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Saint Barnabas: his martyrdom. Etching.
Reference: 3520i- Pictures
Skull of a beheaded man. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29240i- Pictures
Canton, China: a woman being beheaded. Photograph, 1927.
Date: [1927]Reference: 663457i- Pictures
China: the bodies and heads of four men who have been beheaded lie on the ground; a group of Chinese soldiers stand nearby, one of them wiping his sword. Photograph.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663488i- Pictures
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Saint Paul. Engraving by A. Collaert.
Collaert, Adriaen, -1618.Reference: 6761i- Pictures
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The martyrdom of Saint Barbara. Engraving by Wierix after Jan van der Straet (Stradanus), 15--.
Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.Date: [between 1564? and 1589?]Reference: 3516i- Pictures
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The mass execution of 335 Moroccans by the Sultan Muley Abdallah: a group of men shackled by chains to each others' necks are beheaded outside the Emperor's tent in the presence of English slaves. Etching by T. Reynolds.
Date: [1768]Reference: 43037i